Hi, Yes. I need facts from the database. I will be query the database using a SOAP call. So I end up getting an XML input file as my fact input. I am trying to use Smooks framework for this as suggested online. I downloaded the required JBoss Tool for it But don't seem to be able to find much information on how to implement it. I just got this snippet of code: Smooks smooks = new Smooks("smooks-config.xml"); DroolsSmooksConfiguration conf = new DroolsSmooksConfiguration("some name",null); DroolsSmooksStatelessSession smooksSession = new DroolsSmooksStatelessSession (session,smooks, conf); javax.xml.transform.Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(getClass().getResourceAsStream("name-of-data -file.xml")) smooksSession.executeFileter(xmlSource); Where do I get my smooks-config.xml file? And if I want to specify multiple input XML files can I just keep invoking this again for passing my input files? javax.xml.transform.Source xmlSource = new StreamSource(getClass().getResourceAsStream("name-of-data -file.xml")) Please guide.Is there any better documentation for this? Or is there a better way to do this? Thank you. M ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:05:30 -0400 From: David Sinclair <dsinclair(a)chariotsolutions.com&gt; Subject: Re: [rules-users] pulling data from external database To: Rules Users List <rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; Message-ID: <AANLkTinnulLHV1ivmWJeAR-Ay7a6d6GeLBnbdt62jLqE(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" There is no specific "way" of doing it with drools. You could use JDBC, Spring, Hibernate, etc. The more important question is what data from a DB do u need? Facts? 2010/6/16 Fnu Mahalakshmi <FMahalakshmi(a)nyx.com&gt;