[rules-users] Scheduling Application and Optaplanner

[Geoffrey De Smet]

OptaPlanner is POJO based, so there are probably several ways you can go 
with it:

1) use a project like jni4net to directly communicate based on those 
pojo's. Ask on their mailing lists if such things are possible and how 
to do this.

2) Expose OptaPlanner's POJO's as XML in a REST service. This is pretty 
straightforward with something like RESTEasy to create the REST service 
(see their manual). You can use XStream or JAXB (the latter being the 
default in a RESTEasy setting) to map from POJO to XML (the OptaPlanner 
examples already do this with XStream). .NET suppose to work well as a 
REST client - this seems a common way to bridge java and .NET.

3) One of your suggestions: same as 2) but by calling a java program 
from the command line and writing the xml to a file (instead of using REST).

On 01-08-13 15:30, marchias wrote:
> Thank you for the quick response. Currently my application logic for
> automatically generating schedules is just a radomized 4-5 pass rule driven
> process. It would increase my ability to generate an optimized schedule
> exponentially if I go with a scoring approach like this. Do you know if
> anyone has successfully bridged from a .NET application to Optaplanner at
> the API level? I could probably drop xml files from my app and import into
> optaplanner an then import the optimized schedule back in but would like a
> tight integration. I have seen some projects like jni4net to do that but was
> curious if you have seen anyone do it already. I can program in Java so
> editing on that side to extend is no problem but I have a ton invested in
> the .NET schduling side.
>
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