[rules-users] Re: Maven compilation mojo?

[Eric Miles]

I have not performed any tests on this, but I'm sure the Drools guys
could comment on it as they provide serialized vs non-serialized support
in the framework.  I would have to think it would decrease
initialization time as you're only de-serializing objects vs compiling a
rule set.  Of course, your build time will increase :)

Our main goal was to limit the number (and size) of the jars we had to
include in our application as we already had a very large distributable
for our application.

Some features of the compilation mojo:
- Precompiles drls, ruleflow, and dsl into their individual packages
- Supports single package being spread across multiple DRL and rule flow
files using same package name.
- Supports DSL through a specific naming convention (some work could be
done here to be a little more flexible)
- Supports compression to decrease serialized package file sizes
(Currently gzip, could tweak to support other compressions)
- Serializes via XStream (could be tweaked to support different
serialization mechanisms)

Eric

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 16:57 +0100, Geoffrey De Smet wrote:
> Sounds interesting.
> Does it noticeably decrease RuleBase initialization time at runtime?
> 
> With kind regards,
> Geoffrey De Smet
> 
> 
> Eric Miles wrote:
> > Is there a Maven Drools compilation mojo, provided either by the Drools
> > team or some open source project?  If not, I have one that I'd be
> > willing to submit.  I think it's pretty slick and would only require a
> > few tweaks to truly make it useful (hard coded to currently use XStream
> > serialization).
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