I have a usecase where I want to apply rules to messages that are received and processed one message at a time. I am thinking the stateless session matches this usecase. I was surprised though to notice that the stateless session seemed to perform upwards of 10x slower! I am including the below source which illustrates my usage. The DRL file used simply has one rule that does a simple modification on two fields. There is some test code above this stuff that just pushes messages into the plugin. I am also including VisualVM profiling results. The top results are for the stateful while the bottom are for the stateless. It looks like the stateless performance is dominated by calls to ReflectionInstantiator.newInstance()? StatelessKnowledgeSession Code: public class DataConditionPlugin implements Plugin { final KnowledgeBuilder kbuilder; final StatelessKnowledgeSession ksession; public DataConditionPlugin(String drlFileName) { kbuilder = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilder(); // this will parse and compile in one step kbuilder.add( ResourceFactory.newClassPathResource(drlFileName, DataConditionPlugin.class), ResourceType.DRL); // Check the builder for errors if (kbuilder.hasErrors()) { System.out.println(kbuilder.getErrors().toString()); throw new RuntimeException("Unable to compile \""+drlFileName+"\"."); } // get the compiled packages (which are serializable) final Collection<KnowledgePackage> pkgs = kbuilder.getKnowledgePackages(); // add the packages to a knowledgebase (deploy the knowledge packages). final KnowledgeBase kbase = KnowledgeBaseFactory.newKnowledgeBase(); kbase.addKnowledgePackages(pkgs); ksession = kbase.newStatelessKnowledgeSession(); } @Override public Object execute(Object message) { ksession.execute(message); return message; } } StatefulKnowledgeSession Code: public class DataConditionPlugin implements Plugin { final KnowledgeBuilder kbuilder; final StatefulKnowledgeSession ksession; public DataConditionPlugin(String drlFileName) { kbuilder = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilder(); // this will parse and compile in one step kbuilder.add( ResourceFactory.newClassPathResource(drlFileName, DataConditionPlugin.class), ResourceType.DRL); // Check the builder for errors if (kbuilder.hasErrors()) { System.out.println(kbuilder.getErrors().toString()); throw new RuntimeException("Unable to compile \""+drlFileName+"\"."); } // get the compiled packages (which are serializable) final Collection<KnowledgePackage> pkgs = kbuilder.getKnowledgePackages(); // add the packages to a knowledgebase (deploy the knowledge packages). final KnowledgeBase kbase = KnowledgeBaseFactory.newKnowledgeBase(); kbase.addKnowledgePackages(pkgs); ksession = kbase.newStatefulKnowledgeSession(); } protected void finalize() throws Throwable { ksession.dispose(); }; @Override public Object execute(Object message) { FactHandle factHandler = ksession.insert(message); ksession.fireAllRules(); Object o = ksession.getObject(factHandler); ksession.retract(factHandler); return o; } } http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/file/n3208057/Screenshot-Java_VisualVM.png -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/Stateful-vs-Stateless-Session-Performan... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users