Here you can find some tests related to KnowledgeAgent: https://github.com/droolsjbpm/drools/tree/master/drools-compiler/src/test... These tests show the expected behaviour of KnowledgeAgent. In the tests, the file scanning if on demand. If you want to scan resources periodically you can use ResourceChangeScannerService and ResourceChangeNotifierService: ResourceFactory.getResourceChangeNotifierService().start(); ResourceFactory.getResourceChangeScannerService().start(); Best Regards, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Esteban Aliverti - Developer @ http://www.plugtree.com - Blog @ http://ilesteban.wordpress.com 2011/2/24 vamshidhar reddy chitti <chvreddy2001(a)yahoo.de&gt;