2009/8/5 Mark Proctor <[email protected]> > Ken Archer wrote: > > The jboss.org documentation describes rule templates as " an experimental > feature. In particular, the API is subject to change". However, the Red > Hat documentation does not caveat rule templates as "experimental" in any > way. Are templates (which are available in other BRMSs) no longer > considered "experimental"? Thanks so much. > > No they are experimental still. I'm waiting for the community author, or > someone else in the community to, to work on them and mature them more. > Adding other tabular data sources, such as a database and proving the > current approach is flexible enough. We haven't had any feedback on this > yet, I don't even know if people are using it, so it's hard for us to guage > the maturity of it. >
First thing I missed in the pre-5.0 stage was a general interface for feeding the template expansion with arbitrary Bean-style objects or property maps; so this is now in there. I'm about to use this feature, to sell people here at this company the concept that rules, and Drools in particular, is well suited for a certain application area. If interested users (yes, you, Ken) formulate and pronounce their requirements beyond making the IF stable, I'd be willing to look into it. > So until the community steps up more, even if it's just suggestions on > what's needed to get this matured, it will stay "experimental" - some better > documentation wouldn't go amiss either :) > And if people (yes, you, Mark) would not only ominously hint at what needs to be added to Expert sections 5.1.7 and 5.2, then I'd also consider writing a few paragraphs. Cheers Wolfgang Mark Ken Archer Telogical Systems >
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