Importing JAVA bean into Drools Workbench - drools

Question

I start using KIE Drools Workbench and I practice in creating DRL files so I can tutor pepole that are not programmers in creating rules.
I know how to create a JAVA class within the Workbench but I need to know how to import a class I already wrote that will be part of the statement.
For example:
Employer - class I create within the Workbench
Employee - class I developed in eclipse and wish to import into the Workbench
So the drl could look like this:
when
$employer:Employer(isHappy == true)
then
Employee emp = new Employee();
emp.setSalary(100);
insert(emp);
end
Any idea how can I import JAVA bean to use in KIE Drools Workbench?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Create a jar with the beans you want to use (use maven for convenience).
Upload jar into workbench through Artifact Repository.
Include dependency using project editor AND include all packages of the jar to the Package white list.
Add the classes you need at the Data Objects menu of the rules to use them.

Answer 2

What Stathis stated gives you one option to do this. Alternatively you can
maven install your beans project (this will extract a jar in .m2 repository to use as a dependency)
add a dependency with the jar extracted in .m2 in your project's pom
As for the tutoring part you should examine the possibility of using dsl (Domain Specific Language) for your rules. This and this (chapter 5.10) might be handy to you