Activiti and drools

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ericsnyder

I am a little confused about drools…

Let's say I want to set the value of a business process variable based on what the high temp was predicted to be that day.

If the high is predicted to be above 70 degrees F then send out ice.
If the  high is predicted to be below 40 degrees then send out hot coals.
Do nothing if the temperature is between 40 and 70.

I want to create a business process and deploy it and then leave it alone. In other words I do not want to change the business process every day based on what the high was predicted to be.

As I understand this is what drools is good for - making the business logic flexible without deploying a new business process.

My confusion:
I see that you have to compile your drools package and deploy it as a resource in the bar file of a business process.

I think there is something here I don't understand???

trademak

That's correct. If you want that support it would be better to use a remote Drools server, and connect to that. That's something we could support in Activiti as well, but we haven't had much community request for this yet. In the current version a hack would be to change the byte array of the Drools file yourself. I know that's hack 😉

Best regards,