In the archives there is a discussion about this where Peter Lin brough up some good reasons why annotations will be problematic for 3.0 and beyond.
In terms of Spring support, if anyone wants to support or maintain Spring support, they are welcome too. Spring is pretty much a part of the furniture now for JEE development, so some spring integration would be great, but not necessarily POJO rules. On 12/15/05, Mark Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fyi annotated rules will be dropped from the 3.0 release lines. > > Mark > Tushar T wrote: > > Hi, > > I am in a process of using Drools (version 2.1) for development of an > > application. I want to make use of JDK 5.0 annotations for defining > > rules but I dont want to load them in Spring's Application Contest. I > > have seen the Java Annotation Semantics and documentation for the > > same, but I was not able to create rule base for plain annotated rule > > POJOs. > > > > The work around I could find is to use drools-annotation-2.0.jar which > > supports annotations like @DroolsRule. > > > > Can somebody please comment, if it possible to use Drools 2.1 > > annotation semantics, without loading the rules in application context? > > If yes, then how to do it? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Tushar > > > >
