Maven Drools Plugin: Basic concepts

Rules made available to the Drools rule engine in its most basic form are defined using text files ending in .drl. Although Drools does support other file formats for various other knowledge types, these formats are out of scope unless a plugin user requests support for them.

Maven Drools Plugin

The Maven Drools Plugin supports compilation of knowledge source code (*.DRL) for the Drools Rule Engine into a binary format suitable for both loading into the rule engine and re-using while compiling other knowledge source files.

Maven Drools Support