<br>   Yes, you are in the right track, and I understand this is a bit confusing at first. One more reason for people to go to the October Rules Fest 2009 where I will give a presentation on all the ways to extend the engine to solve specific problems. It will be interesting I hope (last year was awesome) and even Charles Forgy will be there doing a presentation on Parallel Rete. :)<br>
<br>    Meanwhile I will write a tutorial on this, but just to help you there, your approach is correct, except that you don&#39;t need to setup the option for each operator. It works like this:<br><br>* One EvaluatorDefinition class implements support to one or more evaluators, defined by the method public String[] getEvaluatorIds().<br>
<br>* All you need to do, then, is wire you class once and the engine will pick-up all the IDs supported by that class. When you have your class wired, you give it a unique string identifier, so that if you ever need to replace it, or remove it, you will use that id. Sometimes we use the operator as the ID, but usually it is something that reminds you of the kind of evaluators that class define. For instance, drools registers the ComparableEvaluatorsDefinition in this way:<br>
<br>drools.evaluator.comparable = org.drools.base.evaluators.ComparableEvaluatorsDefinition<br><br>  So in this case, &quot;comparable&quot; is the identifier. Finally, from my previous e-mail you will see that the reason that the eclipse IDE is still giving you errors is that you are using the API to configure the evaluators. Just move the configuration to the configuration file and the IDE will pick it up.<br>
<br>   []s<br>   Edson<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/15 Asif Iqbal <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Asif.Iqbal@infor.com">Asif.Iqbal@infor.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">










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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Edson,</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">What I have done so far is created a CustomComparableEvaluatorsDefinition,
which is exactly the same as the default ComparableEvaluatorsDefinition apart
form having support for strings, which I have done by creating StringGreaterOrEqualEvaluators
and added that in my custom class, using the addEvaluatorFunction :-</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">           
addEvaluator(
ValueType.SHORT_TYPE,        
Operator.GREATER,            
ShortGreaterEvaluator.INSTANCE );</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">           
addEvaluator( ValueType.SHORT_TYPE,        
Operator.GREATER_OR_EQUAL,   
ShortGreaterOrEqualEvaluator.INSTANCE );</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">           
addEvaluator( ValueType.PSHORT_TYPE,       
Operator.LESS,               
ShortLessEvaluator.INSTANCE );</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">           
addEvaluator( ValueType.PSHORT_TYPE,        Operator.LESS_OR_EQUAL,      
ShortLessOrEqualEvaluator.INSTANCE );</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">           
addEvaluator( ValueType.PSHORT_TYPE,       
Operator.GREATER,            
ShortGreaterEvaluator.INSTANCE );</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">           
addEvaluator( ValueType.PSHORT_TYPE,       
Operator.GREATER_OR_EQUAL,   
ShortGreaterOrEqualEvaluator.INSTANCE );</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">            //Custom
additions</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">           
addEvaluator( ValueType.STRING_TYPE,       
Operator.LESS,               
StringLessEvaluator.INSTANCE );</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">           
addEvaluator( ValueType.STRING_TYPE,       
Operator.LESS_OR_EQUAL,      
StringLessOrEqualEvaluator.INSTANCE );</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">           
addEvaluator( ValueType.STRING_TYPE,       
Operator.GREATER,            
StringGreaterEvaluator.INSTANCE );</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">           
addEvaluator( ValueType.STRING_TYPE,       
Operator.GREATER_OR_EQUAL,    StringGreaterOrEqualEvaluator.INSTANCE
);</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Now Im am trying to wire it, with the
following.. </span></font></p>

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<p style=""><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        CustomComparableEvaluatorsDefinition
MyCustomComparable custom = <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">new</span></b> CustomComparableEvaluatorsDefinition();</span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        KnowledgeBuilderConfiguration
config = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.<i><span style="font-style: italic;">newKnowledgeBuilderConfiguration</span></i>();</span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        EvaluatorOption
option = EvaluatorOption.<i><span style="font-style: italic;">get</span></i>(<u>Operator.<i><span style="font-style: italic;">LESS</span></i>.toString()</u>, custom);</span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        EvaluatorOption
option2 = EvaluatorOption.<i><span style="font-style: italic;">get</span></i>(<u>Operator.<i><span style="font-style: italic;">LESS_OR_EQUAL</span></i>.toString()</u>, custom);</span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        EvaluatorOption
option3 = EvaluatorOption.<i><span style="font-style: italic;">get</span></i>(<u>Operator.<i><span style="font-style: italic;">GREATER</span></i>.toString()</u>, custom);</span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        EvaluatorOption
option4 = EvaluatorOption.<i><span style="font-style: italic;">get</span></i>(<u>Operator.<i><span style="font-style: italic;">GREATER_OR_EQUAL</span></i>.toString()</u>, custom);</span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        </span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        config.setOption(option);</span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        config.setOption(option2);</span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        config.setOption(option3);</span></font></p>

<p><font color="#333399" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">                        config.setOption(option4);</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Firstly is this the correct approach?....</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The problem im having is that in my drl
files still flag errors, when I do “test” &gt; “test2”
, am I missing something?</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Regards</span></font></p>

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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <a href="mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank">rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank">rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Asif Iqbal<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> 15 July 2009 08:20<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Rules Users List<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [rules-users] Getting
hold of the Evaluator Registry</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Edson,</span></font></p>

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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks for your replies they have really
helped. </span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><span>1)<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">       </span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I am still not sure about creating a new operator, since the
‘&gt;=’ operator already exists it just does not cater for strings,
which I want to add. So would creating a new operator cause the existing one to
be overrriden when added to the registry?  </span></font></p>

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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><span>2)<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">       </span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Having looked at the examples and tests you emailed, I am still
unsure how to actually wire in the changes, say for example I have replaced the
existing ‘&gt;=’ evaluator or created a new evaluator so that
‘&gt;=’  now handles strings. When writing rules will the
engine pick this up?.. or do I need to create a new jar by building?.. or do I
need to update a configuration file?... im just not sure…</span></font></p>

<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><span>3)<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">       </span></font></span></span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Wouldn’t the following also add the evaluator definition by
replacing the existing one.. </span></font></p>

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<p style=""><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;">                 
<u>PackageBuilderConfiguration</u> pkgb = </span></font><b><u><font color="#7f0055" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: rgb(127, 0, 85); font-weight: bold;">new</span></font></u></b><u><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;"> PackageBuilderConfiguration()</span></font></u><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;">;  
            </span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"></span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;">                 
<u>pkgb.getEvaluatorRegistry()</u>.<u>addEvaluatorDefinition</u>(</span></font><b><font color="#7f0055" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: rgb(127, 0, 85); font-weight: bold;">new </span></font></b><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="background: silver none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">ComparableEvaluatorsDefinition</span></font><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;">());</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"></span></font></p>


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<u><span style="background: silver none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">PackageBuilder</span></u> builder = </span></font><b><u><font color="#7f0055" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: rgb(127, 0, 85); font-weight: bold;">new</span></font></u></b><u><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;"> <span style="background: silver none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">PackageBuilder</span>(pkgb)</span></font></u><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;">;</span></font></p>


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<p style=""><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;">                 
<u>builder.addPackageFromDrl(source)</u>;</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"></span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;">                 
<u>Package</u> pkg = <u>builder.getPackage()</u>;</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"></span></font></p>

<p style=""><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;">                 
</span></font><font color="#3f7f5f" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: rgb(63, 127, 95);">// Add the
package to a <u>rulebase</u> (deploy the rule package).</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"></span></font></p>

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</span></font><font color="#0000c0" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 192);">rules</span></font><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;; color: black;"> = <u>RuleBaseFactory.<i><span style="font-style: italic;">newRuleBase</span></i>()</u>;</span></font><font face="Courier New" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Courier New&quot;;"></span></font></p>


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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks for your help…</span></font></p>

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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank">rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org" target="_blank">rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Edson Tirelli<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> 14 July 2009 23:05<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Rules Users List<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [rules-users] Getting
hold of the Evaluator Registry</span></font></p>

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   I am working in one example of drools features where I implement a
custom evaluator here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbossrules/contrib/lotrc/src/main/java/org/drools/examples/lotrc/evaluators/IsAdjacentToEvaluatorDefinition.java" target="_blank">http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbossrules/contrib/lotrc/src/main/java/org/drools/examples/lotrc/evaluators/IsAdjacentToEvaluatorDefinition.java</a><br>

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   I use the configuration file instead of API in the example:<br>
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<a href="http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbossrules/contrib/lotrc/src/main/resources/META-INF/drools.packagebuilder.conf" target="_blank">http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbossrules/contrib/lotrc/src/main/resources/META-INF/drools.packagebuilder.conf</a><br>

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   []s<br>
   Edson</span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2009/7/14 Edson Tirelli &lt;<a href="mailto:tirelli@post.com" target="_blank">tirelli@post.com</a>&gt;</span></font></p>

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   Asif,<br>
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   My recommendation is create a new operator for you instead of
overriding existing ones. Although if you really want to replace the existing
ones, setting the property or calling the API to register a new operator will
override the default.<br>
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   See:<br>
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<a href="http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbossrules/trunk/drools-compiler/src/test/java/org/drools/builder/KnowledgeBuilderConfigurationTest.java" target="_blank">http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/labs/labs/jbossrules/trunk/drools-compiler/src/test/java/org/drools/builder/KnowledgeBuilderConfigurationTest.java</a><br>

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   Test method:<br>
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testEvaluatorConfiguration()<br>
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   []s<br>
   Edson</span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2009/7/14 Asif Iqbal &lt;<a href="mailto:Asif.Iqbal@infor.com" target="_blank">Asif.Iqbal@infor.com</a>&gt;</span></font></p>

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I need to do is modify one of the evaluator classes specifically ‘&lt;=’,
so that it can handle strings. Now I know I need to create a class similar to
ComparableEvaluatorDefinition. But what I want to do is replace the existing
one in the evaluator registry with my implementation which will include the
additional String capability.</span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">From
my understanding that should be all that is required. Unless im missing
something… now all I need to know is how do I get hold of the evaluator
registry?</span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Cheers</span></font></p>

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-- <br>
 Edson Tirelli<br>
 JBoss Drools Core Development<br>
 JBoss by Red Hat @ <a href="http://www.jboss.com" target="_blank">www.jboss.com</a></span></font></p>

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 Edson Tirelli<br>
 JBoss Drools Core Development<br>
 JBoss by Red Hat @ <a href="http://www.jboss.com" target="_blank">www.jboss.com</a></span></font></p>

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