Hi! I have a really strange problem with my ruleflow. I have a ruleflow process with some workhandlers. The flow seems to work perfectly, until I arrive at the timer. The timer itself executes well, if it delays for a period of only 4 milliseconds. The flow stops running on the join component (because I don't reach the workhandler CheckRass, in the debugging). If I give the timer a delay period of 1 minute (60 000 milliseconds), the flow stops running at the timer component. The action nodes before and after the timer contain print statements and in this case I never reach the printstatement after the timer. I really don't understand why my flow stops running at these points, as I never reach an end node. Does anyone see the problem? (I added a printscreen of my ruleflow) Thx! Femke If I

Thx for the explanation. I added the code to my application, but my timer still doesn't seem to work, but now my app doesn't crash anymore. Femke Op 8-mrt-09, om 03:51 heeft Kris Verlaenen het volgende geschreven: > Femke, > > The reason is that the Drools engine by default is a passive > component, > meaning that it will only execute if you tell it to explicitly (e.g. > using fireAllRules()). In this case, if you use a small timer the > engine is still executing startProcess() and hence the timer will be > executed. When using a larger timer delay, the timer will trigger but > will only put an action on the action queue. If you would call > fireAllRules after one minute, all queued actions (in this case the > execution of the timer) will be executed. You can however also > configure the Drools engine to fire continuously using > fireUntilHalt(). > I just added this new section in the documentation to explain it: > > By default, the Drools engine is a passive component, meaning that it > will only start processing if you tell it to (for example, you first > insert the necessary data and then tell the engine to start > processing). > In passive mode, a timer that has been triggered will be put on the > action queue. This means that it will be executed the next time the > engine is told to start executing by the user (using fireAllRules() or > if the engine is already / still running), in which case the timer > will > be executed automatically. > > When using timers, it does usually make sense to make the Drools > engine > an active component, meaning that it will execute actions whenever > they > become available (and not wait until the user tells it to start > executing again). This would mean a timer would be executed once it is > triggered. To make the engine fire all actions continuously, you must > call the fireUntilHalt() method. That means the engine will continue > firing until the engine is halted. The following fragment shows how to > do this (note that you should call fireUntilHalt() in a separate > thread > as it will only return if the engine has been halted (by either the > user > or some logic calling halt() on the session): > > new Thread(new Runnable() { > public void run() { > ksession.fireUntilHalt(); > } > }).start(); > > // starting a new process instance > ksession.startProcess("..."); > // any timer that will trigger will now be executed automatically > > Kris > > Quoting Femke De Backere <femmyke(a)gmail.com&gt;: > >> Hi! >> >> I have a really strange problem with my ruleflow. I have a ruleflow >> >> process with some workhandlers. The flow seems to work perfectly, >> until I arrive at the timer. The timer itself executes well, if it >> delays for a period of only 4 milliseconds. The flow stops running on >> >> the join component (because I don't reach the workhandler CheckRass, >> >> in the debugging). >> >> If I give the timer a delay period of 1 minute (60 000 >> milliseconds), the flow stops running at the timer component. The >> action nodes before and after the timer contain print statements and >> >> in this case I never reach the printstatement after the timer. >> >> I really don't understand why my flow stops running at these points, >> >> as I never reach an end node. Does anyone see the problem? (I added a >> >> printscreen of my ruleflow) >> >> Thx! >> >> Femke >> >> If I > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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