FYI, with drools 5.1.0.CR1: edit your ".rf" file with an xml editor and in the "header" section, add your globals (spring beans): <header> <globals> <global identifier="mySpringService" type="myPackage.mySpringServiceInterface" /> </globals> </header> then in your spring configuration file, configure your knowledge session like this: <drools:ksession id="ksession" type="stateful" kbase="kbase"> <drools:script> <drools:set-global identifier="mySpringService" ref="mySpringServiceBeanId" /> </drools:script> </drools:ksession> -- View this message in context: http://drools-java-rules-engine.46999.n3.nabble.com/Accessing-spring-bean... Sent from the Drools - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hi, indeed I have an error message in Eclipse since the xsd file is not available online (therefore no auto-completion). But it is not a blocking issue: the http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-referen... spring namespace handler that parses tags from the drools namespace works as expected (btw make sure you have a spring version >= 2.x). The xsd is embedded in drools-spring-5.1.0.x.jar, it is not documented but the tag names are self-documenting. -- View this message in context: http://drools-java-rules-engine.46999.n3.nabble.com/Accessing-spring-bean... Sent from the Drools - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Alright, the xsd error still remains though but I could able to successfully integrate drools 5.1 CR1 with spring 3.0.3. I got the spring name space handler exception when i tried to use drools-spring.5.1.jar with DRE 5.0, which is not appropriate. So, i completely checked out DRE 5.1. CR1, its a plain vanilla integration ... drools:resource-ref tag is not working but i cud use drools:resource tag within kbase. Thanks Optimus :-) -drooRam -- View this message in context: http://drools-java-rules-engine.46999.n3.nabble.com/Accessing-spring-bean... Sent from the Drools - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.