[FIXED] Drools not working correctly with Spring Boot

Issue

I want to use Drools with Spring Boot for Bean Validation but I have narrowed the problem down to this few lines of code:

The Main-Class

@SpringBootApplication
public class App {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);
        check();
    }

    public static void check() {
        // load up the knowledge base
        KieServices ks = KieServices.Factory.get();
        KieContainer kContainer = ks.getKieClasspathContainer();
        KieSession kSession = kContainer.newKieSession("ksession-rules");
        //go
        Patient patient = new Patient("Hans", "Mueller");
        kSession.insert(patient);
        kSession.fireAllRules();
    }
}

Patient is an Entity with just an id, firstname and lastname with getter and setter.

The kmodule.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kmodule xmlns="http://jboss.org/kie/6.0.0/kmodule">
    <kbase name="rules" packages="rules">
        <ksession name="ksession-rules"/>
    </kbase>
</kmodule>

and two rules

package com.sample

import com.sample.Patient;

rule "Test"
    when
        eval(1 == 1)
    then
        System.out.println("This rule is always fired");
end

rule "Patient"
    when
        exists Patient()
    then
        System.out.println("Patient found");
end

When not calling SpringApplication.run(App.class, args) (like above) everything works fine:

15:50:12.730 [main] DEBUG org.drools.core.impl.KnowledgeBaseImpl - Starting Engine in PHREAK mode
15:50:12.820 [main] DEBUG org.drools.core.common.DefaultAgenda - State was INACTIVE is nw FIRING_ALL_RULES
15:50:12.821 [main] DEBUG org.drools.core.common.DefaultAgenda - Fire Loop
This rule is always fired
15:50:12.827 [main] DEBUG org.drools.core.common.DefaultAgenda - Fire Loop
Patient found
15:50:12.827 [main] DEBUG org.drools.core.common.DefaultAgenda - Fire Loop
15:50:12.827 [main] DEBUG org.drools.core.common.DefaultAgenda - State was FIRING_ALL_RULES is nw HALTING
15:50:12.827 [main] DEBUG org.drools.core.common.DefaultAgenda - State was HALTING is nw INACTIVE

However, when I add SpringApplication.run(App.class, args) to the main, only one rule is fired:

This rule is always fired

Not even the logging of org.drools.core.common.DefaultAgenda is visible anymore.

I have no idea whats going wrong? I expect the same output in both situations. Is SpringBoot doing something in the background?

Solution

For everybody that has the same problem and reads my question:

I haven't solved it directly but the problem has something to do with netbeans. Everything works fine when starting the application via command line. So this is the way to go.

Answered By - xani