Setting preferences

Before you create a rule set file, you should ensure that your preferences for the Active Correlation Technology are set correctly in the Eclipse Workbench. This topic describes how to set these preferences.

First, open the Eclipse Workbench, if it is not already open.
To set your preferences for the Active Correlation Technology, take the following steps:
  1. In the Workbench, click Window > Preferences....
  2. Click Active Correlation Technology, and on the Active Correlation Technology page, specify whether you want to add "act" as the prefix for newly created rules and rule blocks in the rule builder. By default, "act" is not added as the prefix.
  3. Expand Active Correlation Technology. Depending on your application, the following additional items might be shown. Click these items to set the associated preferences.
    Item Associated preference
    Common Base Event Definition Provider You can specify the XML files that provide the structure for one or more event types (including the names and types of attributes that a given event type can contain) that conform to the Common Base Event specification. These event types and attributes are then available when you create rules.
    Compiler You can specify the following primary items:
    • Whether compiled rule sets should be saved
    • The file type for compiled rule sets
    • The class path for code that is to be used at compile time
    By default, compiled rule sets are saved and shown in the Navigator view with a file type of acts, which indicates that the compiler output is a serialized rule set.
Proceed to Creating a project for storing a rule set file.