[rules-dev] drools-spring and drools-guice

[Mark Proctor]

I'd like to add two sub projects to Drools to enable better spring and 
guice support - especially now we have the RuleAgent. Any volunteers for 
this? I'd like to try and standardise, as much as possible, how Drools 
works and integrates with IoC containers.

Ultimiately the integration should be quite lightweight - mostly about 
creating rulebases and working memory and probably the scoping and 
caching of these. I guess you could also have some life cycle management 
about objects themselves and auto assertion/retraction to named working 
memories. We'd need to define a set of agreed annotations to define 
these things, that would work across containers. I believe the JBoss MC 
people have done some work in this area, I have cc'd to see if they have 
any input or documentation pointers.

The core dev team don't have the time and aren't spring/guice 
specialists - so anyone willing to take this up? If we can get 
reasonable implementations we will add them to subversion (and the 
authors commit rights), and make part of the next release - assuming 
they are of good enough quality.

So any takers, maybe we could atleast start at defining what this level 
of integration should look like?

Mark