This might be of interest: http://blog.athico.com/2009/06/introducing-new-smart-forms-tool-drools.html
Currently in the process of being released into open source and an announcement should be made in a few weeks. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:49 AM, tim fulcher <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi > > Making no bones about it, this is a broad topic request and I've got > little hands-on Drools experience, just looking for some pointers on a > potential Drools approach, feedback appreciated. > > Background: > We have a system which asks online users questions to diagnose an > issue (the problem domain isn't important right now). > The questions are structured in a tree/graph such that one question > leads to another until a conclusion - not exactly rocketscience to > this list I suspect! Any question will have n outputs (defined in > configuration); each output is mapped to an option in an HTML > select/radio button. > > The key issue though is that this question flow is all running in the > browser, by reading in an XML configuration and parsing this in > javascript. Instead I need this executing server side, i.e. in a rule > engine. One reason is that increasingly questions are being automated > - currently we make an ajax call which decides upon the outcome to > select and therefore move onto the next. This is however a little > clunky at present. > > I see Drools as a potential execution engine for our reworked system, > running rules until needing a manual question to be asked, and > triggering question display in a page. Upon the answer the flow > continues in that fashion until a conclusion is reached. > > Specific queries: > > We have a legacy stack of question flows, how to adapt them into a > syntax amenable to Drools? Can I do this at runtime? > ( Our question graphs could be accessed via database access or in an > XML format ) > > Given many questions have >2 outcomes, I assume each question-answer > permutation would be a rule? > > Does every question have to be mapped to a bean to become a fact to > operate on? Given our questions are of a few broad types > (boolean,numeric,select one) is that all I need to model? > > In our current setup a user could decide to re-answer an earlier > question and therefore take an alternate route. What would be the > equivalent in Drools? > > If this is viable, will I need 1 rule outcome to pose a question and > another to operate on the outcome, i.e. will the rules fire up > to/including the decision to ask a question, then when an answer fact > is injected into working memory the rules will fire from that point > onwards? > > > Thanks > > A:E > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users >
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