Edson, Thanks for the tip. I figured I'd need to use a workaround like this. Unfortunately I'm under a series of tight development and test deadlines all the way into early summer. Otherwise, I'd have a look. Hopefully someone else out there can assist. Thanks, -A ________________________________ From: rules-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Edson Tirelli Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 5:46 AM To: Rules Users List Subject: Re: [rules-users] No globals in functions? Allen, There is a technical explanation behind that and we never had the time to find a way to overcome this limitation. What you can do, although not ideal, is to send the global as a parameter: funcion void foo( Logger log, String cond ) { ... } rule XYZ when then foo( log, someString ); end If you or anyone would like to help improving this, let us know and we can discuss ways into doing it. []s Edson 2008/10/9 Bagwell, Allen F <afbagwe@sandia.gov<mailto:afbagwe@sandia.gov>> There's probably an easy explanation for this. I was wondering about why functions inside of rule files can't access globals? For example, I have a log4j logger that I pass into my rule files via a global. The logger should never be a part of working memory. It's just there to capture valuable feedback. But I can't do this: global Logger log; function void foo(String cond) { if (cond == "error") log.error("I saw an error"); } Because the compiler says that in the function it can't resolve 'log'. -A Allen F. Bagwell e-mail: afbagwe@sandia.gov<mailto:afbagwe@sandia.gov> phone: 505/284-4517 fax: 505/ 844-7886 There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. -- Lester J. Pourciau _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users@lists.jboss.org<mailto:rules-users@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users -- Edson Tirelli JBoss Drools Core Development JBoss, a division of Red Hat @ www.jboss.com<http://www.jboss.com>