[rules-users] running multiple instance of rule engine

[Swindells, Thomas]

I’m not sure I understand the question.
You have two totally independent rule engine on two different servers running with separate JVMs and sessions.
You happen to share data between the two sessions by updating a database but drools has no knowledge of that (they are just java objects which happen to exist) and they certainly aren’t the same object on both servers.
Temporal reasoning and correlation of events will therefore only happen on the facts that are inserted into that processes working memory – there’s no way it could be any way else as it only know about itself, there could be 10 or 0 other processes running it won’t know the difference.

The ideal method is to have an application design where each request is totally independent from all other requests (other than db state) and therefore you do exactly as you have described – there is no other state to share. If you have to share state between them you have a much bigger problem and you probably have to find some other way to partition up the data into separate blocks.

Thomas

From: rules-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-bounces at lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Neelesh Deo Dani
Sent: 02 August 2011 07:42
To: rules-users at lists.jboss.org
Subject: [rules-users] running multiple instance of rule engine

Hi,
I need a setup where multiple instance of drools rule engine will be running in different physical hosts. In each host, a web server (API) will be running which will receive an input event, process it and insert into rule engine (session) for rules execution on the same host. I'm using external persistent datastore. The objects will be populated from datastore before inserting into the session. After rule execution if there is any change in the state of the objects the same will be stored back to the datastore. The datastore calls are made outside the rule execution.
In this scenario, if an event comes to one host and another event comes to a different host, how will the temporal reasoning or correlation of events work? What is the recommended way of deploying multiple instance of rule engine for scalability?
Please help in this regard.

Thanks & Regards,
Neel




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