[rules-users] Rule, import with wildcards and variable / patternBinding

[Per Sterner]

Hello,

Yesterday I wanted to upgrade my drools version to 5.3 (from 5.1). I got 
the exception "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
de/pelle7/testpackage/event/myEvent (wrong name: 
de/pelle7/testpackage/event/MyEvent)" while adding my resources.
I removed the import wildcards and the error disappeard.

Finally I found the problem:
I used the patternBinding 'myEvent' and there is a class called 
'MyEvent' and I used an wildcard import where the class 'MyEvent' is 
located.

Example code:
"
package de.pelle7.testrules.impl.drools

import de.pelle7.testpackage.event.*

rule "Test rule 1"
dialect "java"
salience 50
when
     myEvent : MyEvent( )
     myEvent2 : MyEvent( data == myEvent.data ) <-- here the Exception 
is thrown
then
     System.err.println("Output");
end
"
My solution is that I replaced all my pattern bindings with the suffix 
'$' which is more convenient.


Perhaps it would be nice to produce an rule-compilation error. with a 
line notice.

Regard,

   Per Sterner