[rules-users] Stateless Vs Stateful Sessions in Webtier

[Mark Proctor]

On 20/01/2010 11:41, Simon Thum wrote:
> Pritam wrote:
>    
>> Drools says, for rules itself, "it doesn't matter whether you use stateless
>> or stateful ksession ..." then why is that an entire set of metadata like
>> grouping and ordering is ignored?
>>      
> As I understood it, a stateless session behaves as if the only object
> known to it is the one you just inserted. Personally, I look at it like:
>
> stateless ->  propositional logic
> stateful ->  first-order logic
>    
I prefer to look at it as turning a drools session into a function. It 
can do eveything a normal stateful session can do, just you have to do 
it all within the scope of a single execute call.

Mark
> I'm not sure that's 100% true though. In any case, it depends on the
> kind of questions you like to ask. If you're not sure, test it.
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
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