[rules-dev] Backport Drools 5 (with Fusion) to Java 1.4

[mrhoden at franklinamerican.com]

Depending on your number of rules and facts, that amount of memory  
will likely be a concern. If I had memory requirements like that I  
would honestly look a clips.

-Michael

On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:19 AM, Thomas Frenken <Thomas.Frenken at offis.de>  
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am interested in running Drools 5 (and especially Drools Fusion)  
> on a
>>> somehow<< resource-constrained device for which only a J2SE 1.4 VM  
>>> ist
> available.
>
> Since Drools meanwhile requires J2SE 1.5 I thought about backporting  
> it.
> But before I invest so much effort, I got two questions:
>
> 1) I have downloaded the sourcecode. At a first glance the only  
> reason for
> requiering J2SE 1.5 is the extensive use of generics. In case I would
> remove all generics from the code, would it be possible to compile  
> drools
> for a J2SE 1.4 VM runtime in general or are there other more hidden
> reasons for requiering J2SE 1.5?
> 2)  I already meantioned I am planning to run drools on a >>somehow<<
> resourcen-constrained device. I explicitly used the term >>somehow<<
> because I am talking of a device with a 400 Mhz CPU and 256 MB RAM  
> (some
> people might laugh about calling this resource-constrained). How about
> resource-consumption of drools? Has anyone run drools on a device with
> similar resources?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best Regards
> Thomas Frenken
>
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