On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, at 09:42 AM, Chris Perrin wrote:
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Right-o. Thanks David, that gives me a starting point, yet begs another
question and one I think I know the answer to. Would your recommend going
the MBean route with Drools?
Well, I think that whatever the problems might be, Drools needs a jsr94 interface, so I think that is a good place to start.
On the other hand, you can probably simply deploy an appropriate drools object as a GeronimoMBean simply by writing a descriptor for it. The question is then, however, what components will use it and how, and how will the transaction and security contexts get propagated. Although the jca framework's answers to these questions don't make complete sense to me in the context of a rule engine, at least they provide some answer.
I haven't looked into jsr94 enough to be able to comment on this any more intelligently yet.
david jencks
The one thing that has kept me from implementing Drools as an MBean is that
there was talk about having Geronimo itself use Drools to help run itself
and I've never written an MBean for anything other than access by client
code.
Chris
