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Chapter 4. The API

Use the API for these two tasks: to create a knowledge base containing your rule flow definitions and to create a session.

4.1. Knowledge Base
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The knowledge-based API allows you to create a single knowledge base that contains all the knowledge your rule flows need. You can be reuse it across sessions.
The knowledge base includes all your rule flow definitions (and other "knowledge types" such as example rules).
This code shows you how to create a knowledge base consisting of only one process definition, using a knowledge builder to add the resource (which comes from the class-path in this case): 
KnowledgeBuilder kbuilder = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilder();
kbuilder.add(ResourceFactory.newClassPathResource("MyProcess.rf"), ResourceType.DRF);
KnowledgeBase kbase = kbuilder.newKnowledgeBase();
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The knowledge-based API allows you to add different types of resources, such as processes and rules, in almost identical ways, to the same knowledge base. This enables a user who knows how to use the Rule Flow engine to start using JBoss Rules Fusion almost immediately, and even to integrate these different types of knowledge.
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