Drools Rules Engine

D Drools Rules Engine

About this appendix:

This appendix introduces and describes the Drools rules engine.

Drools Rules Engine Overview, below, introduces the Drools rules engine components and terminology.

Drools and ANA Integration, page 162, explains how Drools is integrated within Cisco ANA.

Drools Definitions in ANA, page 162, describes Drools within ANA.

Upgrading Rule Files, page 163, describes the rule upgrade process.

D.1 Drools Rules Engine Overview

Drools rules engine is a general-purpose expert-system generator and combines rule-based techniques and object-oriented programming. It also provides a customizable mechanism to add decision support and data flow control functions to business applications.

Drools rules engine is based on an object-oriented paradigm and uses user- defined rules to perform pattern matching on different conditions. The rules are written in a java like syntax, and are organized into source files (known as a rule files), which are plain ASCII files.

D.1.1 Drools Components and Terminology

Drools uses objects as marked out by patterns and rules that invoke certain Actions:

Drools objects are Java objects and can be represented by instances of Java classes or XML schemas.

A pattern is a coded expression (“program”), which manipulates one or more objects to form a pattern to make, adapt or fashion behavior according to designed logic.

Working Memory is where Drools stores all the objects, which it is currently handling.

Actions are operations that may change the working memory.

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3.5 specifications

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