Drools First Step

For this example use Eclipse Juno, Drools 5.4.0

1. Install in Eclipse the drools plug-in 
• Help -> Install new Software 
• Typer in "Work with" http://download.jboss.org/drools/release/5.4.0.Final/org.drools.updatesite/.  That change according with the last version
• Click Add
• Type in "type filter text", Drools
• Select the chechbox 
• Click Finish
2. Create the Drools Workspace 
• File -> Properties 
• Type "Drools" 
• In the window left side -> Configure workspace setting -> Add 
• Select from the uncompressed zip the folder \binaries, in my case "drools-distribution-5.4.0.Final\binaries"
• Click Ok to accept the changes
3. Create a Drools Project to verify
• File -> New Project -> type "Drools"
4. Create a Java class to invoke the rules
• Implement KnowledgeBuilder to parse the DRL files
• Implement KnowledgeBase to compare the object Vs rules
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5. Insert some object to evaluate the rules

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