Thanks for the response Dave. I see that a template engine like XSLT/FreeMarker would surely help in this case, but am still interested in knowing about the API to understand how I could model the rules in DB and make sure that I don't loose any flexibility by storing rules in DB.

Regards, Malay David Cracauer wrote: > Malay, > We've been doing something similar to what you are asking for, but using > the rule syntax as an intermediate step. We have a datamodel that users > can use to > express the rules, and we have a templating engine that turns that into > the drools syntax. This then gets compiled into packages and built into a > rule base. This has worked rather well for us, as it allows us to make > updates to logic on the fly by changing the templates. > > -- > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > >> From: Malay Shah <malay.shah(a)morganstanley.com&gt; >> Sent: Jun 17, 2009 12:36 PM >> To: rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org >> Subject: [rules-users] Creating drools rules porgramatically? >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I am looking to create the drools Rule objects programatically, and I >> believe there is API to do that in 4.0.7. But, the API looks complex and >> the >> documentation is not sufficient. Could anyone please point me to some >> examples of doing this? I basically don't want to write rules in .drl >> files, >> but have a database store the rules and make them strongly typed (by >> generating Rule Objects directly from DB). Any help is much appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> Malay >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Creating-drools-rules-porgramatically--tp24077426p2... >> Sent from the drools - user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > >