[rules-users] rule engines and data-source

[Simon Thum]

> We'd like to automatically generate/ validate the data query according to
> the rules logic.
> I imagine is an analyzer that receives as input a knowledge-base and returns
> the greatest-common-query (like GCD). The returned query can be expressed in
> OCL for example. 
> 
> Does drolls provides a meta-data API to analyze the rule WHEN part? 
To me that sounds like overkill. Anyway, an option you should consider
is querying and inserting a basic set of facts, then use special
traversal/query/whatnot rules which assert the missing pieces. Not as
automatic, but viable. Meaning it worked for me :)

Cheers,

Simon