Rules can be seen as code. If you have rules that are very complex you are going to have issues maintaining the rule before you run into limitations of engine or jvm. The idea is to keep rules as simple as possible. There are various mechanisms for dealing with rule complexities like DSL, decision tables and rule flow Sent from my HTC (Android) On Jan 29, 2010 8:58 PM, "Sesh" <sveerara22(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote: For a given rule, is there a limit to the size of the eval condition? Or are there any size considerations that one should take into account (such as max number of rules, max size of a rules file)? Thank you. Sesh -- View this message in context: http://n3.nabble.com/Is-there-a-limit-to-the-size-of-a-rule-tp143996p1439... 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

On 29/01/2010 21:47, Sesh wrote: the hard limit is set by the amount of memory in your machine. Mark