The manual says "It is strongly discouraged to set or change a global value from inside your rules..." but it doesn't say it won't work. I tried this: ======================== global Integer m; declare DoneInit end rule "init" when then insert(new DoneInit()); System.out.println("m from Java: " + m); m = 100; System.out.println("m modified in init: " + m); end rule "use it" when DoneInit() then System.out.println("use m: " + m); end ========================== and got this output: m from Java: 13 m modified in init: 100 use m: 13 Is this the expected behavior? I'm in a stateless session in case that matters. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users