I didn't get any suggestions here. I am just worried that I may be trying to do something not feasible/advisable. I will appreciate any hints here..
kunal wrote: > > Hello list. I needed some expert advice related to implementing Rule > inheritance in Drools. I will still consider myself new to Drools and > trying to go through all the source code currently. > > > > The requirement for rule inheritance that I have is as follows: > > > > A set of rules are defined/implemented on an entity acting as a template > for other entities. Any entity created using template entity will > inherit rules defined in template. There may be hundreds of child > entities created from parent template entity. Inheritance here supports > the following: > > 1. All enabled rules from template are also enabled on child entity. > > 2. Child entity can over-ride one or more of the rules defined in > template. Child entity may also change rule settings/disable them. > > 3. Child entity can also extend rule-base by adding its own rules which > are not defined in template. > > > > I know there has been mentioned in the list of not having support for > rule inheritance in Drools yet, but no discussion of how to achieve it. > So any insights will be greatly appreciated. > > > > Also one of the design questions here is should we use separate > rule-base for each child entity as well as template entity (there can be > potentially hundreds of child entities for a given template) or should > we try to use only one rule-base and provide support for inheritance > using only custom agenda filtering. Usage of custom agenda filter may > help with performance as it won't require hundreds of rule-bases but may > not be even feasible to what we are trying to accomplish here. Also it > may result in other short-comings but I can't visualize it just yet. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Kunal Shah > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rule-Inheritance-support-tf4468549.html#a12778779 Sent from the drools - user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users
