<br> Well, the goal of these approaches is a bit different. The accumulate function will give you the actual value of the minimum age, while the rule pattern approach will give you the Person whose age is the minimum age.<br>
<br> []s<br> Edson<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/10 Steven Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevearoonie@gmail.com">stevearoonie@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yeah - that discussion was before drools had the accumulate function.<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Greg Barton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg_barton@yahoo.com" target="_blank">greg_barton@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That approach looks a bit cartesian joiny. I'd be interested in seeing how it compares to using accumulate.<br>
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> From: Steven Williams <<a href="mailto:stevearoonie@gmail.com" target="_blank">stevearoonie@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [rules-users] drools query<br>
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<div><div></div><div>> Have a look here<br>
> <a href="http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-11909" target="_blank">http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-11909</a> (this is to<br>
> find the max so just reverse it)<br>
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> cheers<br>
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> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:48 AM, tati-2<br>
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> > How to extract min age of many objects of the same<br>
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