Hi Bree. Well, thats a new thing Kris threw in - cause people were asking for it. It should only validate ones in the rules project itself - I assume that is what you mean? If this is a problem for you, could you create a JIRA and state your case? it may be a case of having an optional config dialog to setup where .xls may live and where they dont. Regards, Michael. On 4/17/07, Bree VanOss <breevanoss(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > I've started looking at the JBoss Rules 3.1-M1 Eclipse plugin to get an > idea of how much migration work I have to look forward to. > > The first issue I ran into is that it appears the Drools Builder is > validating every Excel (.xls) file I have in my source path. Is this a > design decision and if so, how can I "hide" non-decision table .xls files > from the Drools builder? I've tried excluding them from the Eclipse Source > Path using a "source exclusion rule", but that didn't seem to work. > > Thanks, > > Bree > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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

Michael, I actually like the basic concept of validating decision tables, my issue is that we have FIT tests (in Excel) in a separate source folder in our "rules project". These .xls files are falsely being identified as decision tables with a ton of problems. Validation also seems to take much longer than it does with the 3.0.x branch (like from 30 seconds in 3.0 to to 5 minutes in 3.1 !?!?). Though the two issues may be related. A common way of dealing with this problem in Eclipse is to allow for ant-like "source path include/exclude" patterns. i.e. exclude test/**/*.xls For that matter it would be nice to have the same thing for standard DRL files. The validation of a large rule base can take some time and randomly results in exceptions much of the time. Once I've tested and verified a set of rules I could (optionally) exclude them from validation. I'll write this all up in the JIRA this evening. Thanks again, Bree On 4/17/07, Michael Neale < michael.neale(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi Bree. > > Well, thats a new thing Kris threw in - cause people were asking for it. > It should only validate ones in the rules project itself - I assume that is > what you mean? > > If this is a problem for you, could you create a JIRA and state your > case? it may be a case of having an optional config dialog to setup where > .xls may live and where they dont. > > Regards, > > Michael. > > On 4/17/07, Bree VanOss < breevanoss(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've started looking at the JBoss Rules 3.1-M1 Eclipse plugin to get > > an idea of how much migration work I have to look forward to. > > > > The first issue I ran into is that it appears the Drools Builder is > > validating every Excel (.xls) file I have in my source path. Is this a > > design decision and if so, how can I "hide" non-decision table .xls files > > from the Drools builder? I've tried excluding them from the Eclipse Source > > Path using a "source exclusion rule", but that didn't seem to work. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Bree > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

Michael, You're good. I switched to a newer Eclipse install for my JBRules 3.1-M1"eval" and completely forgot to adjust my VM args. Thanks for the reminder. Bree On Apr 18, 2007, at 8:29 PM, Michael Neale wrote: Bree, also check you are throwing enough memory at eclipse - with lots of rules and code, if eclipse doesn't have enough and the GC has to work overtime, it can really really suck. On 4/17/07, Bree VanOss <breevanoss(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Michael, > > I actually like the basic concept of validating decision tables, my > issue is that we have FIT tests (in Excel) in a separate source folder in > our "rules project". These .xls files are falsely being identified as > decision tables with a ton of problems. Validation also seems to take much > longer than it does with the 3.0.x branch (like from 30 seconds in 3.0to to 5 minutes in > 3.1 !?!?). Though the two issues may be related. > > A common way of dealing with this problem in Eclipse is to allow for > ant-like "source path include/exclude" patterns. > > i.e. exclude test/**/*.xls > > For that matter it would be nice to have the same thing for standard DRL > files. The validation of a large rule base can take some time and randomly > results in exceptions much of the time. Once I've tested and verified a set > of rules I could (optionally) exclude them from validation. > > I'll write this all up in the JIRA this evening. > > Thanks again, > > Bree > > > > On 4/17/07, Michael Neale < michael.neale(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > > Hi Bree. > > > > Well, thats a new thing Kris threw in - cause people were asking for > > it. It should only validate ones in the rules project itself - I assume that > > is what you mean? > > > > If this is a problem for you, could you create a JIRA and state your > > case? it may be a case of having an optional config dialog to setup where > > .xls may live and where they dont. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael. > > > > On 4/17/07, Bree VanOss < breevanoss(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've started looking at the JBoss Rules 3.1-M1 Eclipse plugin to get > > > an idea of how much migration work I have to look forward to. > > > > > > The first issue I ran into is that it appears the Drools Builder is > > > validating every Excel (.xls) file I have in my source path. Is this a > > > design decision and if so, how can I "hide" non-decision table .xls files > > > from the Drools builder? I've tried excluding them from the Eclipse Source > > > Path using a "source exclusion rule", but that didn't seem to work. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Bree > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users