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Mark Proctor wrote:
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Ravi Krishnamurthy wrote:
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face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Hello:<br>
Could some one give some input for the following questions<br>
1) Can drools read the datas for facts from Excel<br>
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Use a 3rd party library like XLSBeans:<br>
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oh and didn't realise jexel, which our decision table stuff uses also
supports this:<br>
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face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">2) is Nested rules is supported
in Drools<br>
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There are many ways to achieve the same effect. Use mail-archive and
search the user mailing list and you'll read lots about ruleflow,
agendagroups, semaphores etc.<br>
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face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">3) can rules communicate across
.drl files<br>
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rules do not communication, they match data and fire rules. <br>
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face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">4) is there support for looping
and collection<br>
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Drools has the most advanced LHS syntax than any other engine. with
support for both collect and accumulate with accumulate functions -
look into those. Any valid Java or MVEL statement can be used for the
RHS.<br>
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Mark<br>
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Thanks in advance,<br>
Ravi<br>
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