[rules-dev] Why are fundamental API functions not part of "stable"?

[Wolfgang Laun]

On 20 August 2010 21:56, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org> wrote:
>
> try this:
>         for ( KnowledgePackage pkg : kbase.getKnowledgePackages() ) {
>             for ( org.drools.definition.rule.Rule rule : pkg.getRules() ) {
>                 String name = rule.getName();
>                 org.drools.rule.Rule realRule = ( org.drools.rule.Rule
> ) ((KnowledgePackageImp)pkg).getRule( name );
>                 System.out.println( realRule.getAgendaGroup() );
>             }
>         }

Very well hidden - almost an 'Easter egg ;-)
Thank you!

> At the drl it'll stay, for backwards comptability for a while, we'll map
> it onto the new planned constructs. I have plans over all for something
> more generic, orthogonal and thus more flexible and powerful.

At one time, I thought that the metadata map would be the place where
things are kept. - I canimagine that a selection mechanism based on
s.th. like general property predicates would give you all you've got now
(possibly even with long-term backward compatibility) and plenty of new
possibilities. "Sharing" of rule sets among focusable grouds is one thing
I'd very much like to have...

-W