reasoning.web module depends on the rules component

[Rupert Westenthaler <ru...@gmail.com>]

Hi

While working on updates to the Stanbol bundlelists I noticed that the
Web module of the Reasoning component depends on the Rules component.

As Stanbol Component should not depend on each other (at least without
a good reason) I would like to lean why this dependency exists and if
it would be possible to remove it.

best
Rupert

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Re: reasoning.web module depends on the rules component

[Alessandro Adamou <ad...@cs.unibo.it>]

Hi,

On 07/02/2013 08:43, Rupert Westenthaler wrote:
> While working on updates to the Stanbol bundlelists I noticed that the
> Web module of the Reasoning component depends on the Rules component.
>
> As Stanbol Component should not depend on each other (at least without
> a good reason) I would like to lean why this dependency exists and if
> it would be possible to remove it.

Off the top of my hat, as I'm not the main dev of these two components,

you can invoke a reasoner task and pass a set of inference rules in SWRL 
or Stanbol Rule language. These are then executed as part of the task.

The reasoner API has a ReasoningServiceInputProvider interface, and 
there is simply an implementation that supports these rules.

I don't see many sensible ways to separate this dependency, other than 
moving the rule language spec to commons (and that probably still 
wouldn't be enough).

best,
Alessandro



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