Hi, Is there a way to deploy JBoss Rules so that it's exposed as a web service in Axis2? I keep getting server side errors where Drools is not able to resolve/recognize the object passed into the rule. How can I get the objects on the classpath properly for Drools to find it? aj

Yes, my thoughts exactly -- the web service is packaged as an .aar which is nothing more than a jar file. The workaround that i have seen mentioned is to place the data object (Fact) inside a jar and place that into axis2\WEB-INF\lib. That only causes more headaches since everything is generated as xml beans and there is some collision problem. I was wondering if it's possible to get the classes needed by Drools onto the classpath another way at web service runtime? This is all very strange since the rules do correctly see the very same objects when i test them inside eclipse (sans a deployed web service). I suppose JBoss Rules does not really work inside any J2EE container, I thought it should be a simple matter with Tomcat. aj -------------------------------------------- Alan R Jones Boeing S&IS Mission Systems Denver Engineering Center (BDEC) 303.307.3415 ________________________________ From: Michael Neale [mailto:michael.neale@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 6:39 PM To: Rules Users List Subject: Re: [rules-users] Web service deployment sounds like the classes that are visible to axis are not visible to rules - depends how you are packaging up your application - war or ear? On 3/7/07, Jones, Alan R <alan.r.jones(a)boeing.com&gt; wrote: Hi, Is there a way to deploy JBoss Rules so that it's exposed as a web service in Axis2? I keep getting server side errors where Drools is not able to resolve/recognize the object passed into the rule. How can I get the objects on the classpath properly for Drools to find it? aj _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

Everything is deployed inside Apache Tomcat. aj -------------------------------------------- Alan R Jones Boeing S&IS Mission Systems Denver Engineering Center (BDEC) 303.307.3415 ________________________________ From: Michael Neale [mailto:michael.neale@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:33 PM To: Rules Users List Subject: Re: [rules-users] Web service deployment What app server are you using? Some app servers can have different scopes for classes loaded in different ways. I am not sure of all of them ;) On 3/8/07, Jones, Alan R <alan.r.jones(a)boeing.com&gt; wrote: Yes, my thoughts exactly -- the web service is packaged as an .aar which is nothing more than a jar file. The workaround that i have seen mentioned is to place the data object (Fact) inside a jar and place that into axis2\WEB-INF\lib. That only causes more headaches since everything is generated as xml beans and there is some collision problem. I was wondering if it's possible to get the classes needed by Drools onto the classpath another way at web service runtime? This is all very strange since the rules do correctly see the very same objects when i test them inside eclipse (sans a deployed web service). I suppose JBoss Rules does not really work inside any J2EE container, I thought it should be a simple matter with Tomcat. aj -------------------------------------------- Alan R Jones Boeing S&IS Mission Systems Denver Engineering Center (BDEC) 303.307.3415 ________________________________ From: Michael Neale [mailto:michael.neale@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 6:39 PM To: Rules Users List Subject: Re: [rules-users] Web service deployment sounds like the classes that are visible to axis are not visible to rules - depends how you are packaging up your application - war or ear? On 3/7/07, Jones, Alan R <alan.r.jones(a)boeing.com&gt; wrote: Hi, Is there a way to deploy JBoss Rules so that it's exposed as a web service in Axis2? I keep getting server side errors where Drools is not able to resolve/recognize the object passed into the rule. How can I get the objects on the classpath properly for Drools to find it? aj _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

I would definitely be interested -- please post link or send direct! Thanks, aj -------------------------------------------- Alan R Jones -----Original Message----- From: Burr Sutter [mailto:bsutter@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:09 PM To: Rules Users List Subject: Re: [rules-users] Web service deployment I've done this for JBossWS (not Axis) running on the JBoss AS. Let me know if you are interested in the example. Burr Michael Neale wrote: ear? _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users