This is a statement about the nature of rules engines in general. Rules engines are made up of human readable rules, as opposed to say a neural network where the knowledge isn't explicitly represented (it's a big black box of maths). A rules engine is symbolic, a neural network sub-symbolic. A neural network can give you an answer, but not a justification of why. People like rules engines because (when done properly) they can see why it has given the answer it has given. To answer your question, to get a explanation of what the rules engine did, you could insert a logging object as a global into your rules session and then add a log statement in the conclusion of each rule. -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/How-does-drools-provides-an-explanation... 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

kcontext.getMatch().getObjects() is drools 6 API. It's probably there in drools 5 too, but under a different name (I don't know which one). On 18-10-13 05:54, lalit2583 wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, > I was able to get > kcontext.getRule().getName() > using kcontext > but > kcontext.getMatch().getObjects() > is not working for me. > > - (4,27) unable to resolve method using strict-mode: > org.drools.spi.KnowledgeHelper.getMatch()] > ^ > [Regards, > Lalit. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/How-does-drools-provides-an-explanation... > 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 > _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

Thanks Guys, But I would like to further know as to how the solution was arrived and why each "decision" along the way was made. using kcontext I can only identify the rule and matched objects. Regards, Lalit.