Drools DRL file on a package can't read

Question

I'm new to drools, and I can't access my DRL file inside a package. That is what I thought. My hierarchy of the rules of my project is like this

I tried to access the DRL file with this code:

KnowledgeBuilder kbuilder = KnowledgeBuilderFactory.newKnowledgeBuilder();
        kbuilder.add( ResourceFactory.newClassPathResource( "neu/als/KnowledgeLevel", getClass() ), ResourceType.DRL );
        KnowledgeBuilderErrors errors = kbuilder.getErrors();

        if( errors.size() > 0 )
        {
            for( KnowledgeBuilderError error : errors )
            {
                System.err.println( error );
            }
            throw new IllegalArgumentException( "Could not parse knowledge." );
        }

        KnowledgeBase kbase = KnowledgeBaseFactory.newKnowledgeBase();
        kbase.addKnowledgePackages( kbuilder.getKnowledgePackages() );
        return kbase;

Which is resulting to an error:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get LastModified for ClasspathResource
    at org.drools.io.impl.ClassPathResource.getLastModified(ClassPathResource.java:204)
    at org.drools.io.impl.ClassPathResource.getInputStream(ClassPathResource.java:141)
    at org.drools.compiler.DrlParser.parse(DrlParser.java:145)
    at org.drools.compiler.DrlParser.parse(DrlParser.java:139)
    at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.drlToPackageDescr(PackageBuilder.java:477)
    at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addPackageFromDrl(PackageBuilder.java:466)
    at org.drools.compiler.PackageBuilder.addKnowledgeResource(PackageBuilder.java:694)
    at org.drools.builder.impl.KnowledgeBuilderImpl.add(KnowledgeBuilderImpl.java:51)
    at org.drools.builder.impl.KnowledgeBuilderImpl.add(KnowledgeBuilderImpl.java:40)
    at com.neu.als.thesis.units.InferenceEngine.readKnowledgeBase(InferenceEngine.java:52)
    at com.neu.als.thesis.web.controllers.FLTController.evaluateFLT(FLTController.java:124)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.support.HandlerMethodInvoker.invokeHandlerMethod(HandlerMethodInvoker.java:176)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:444)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.handle(AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter.java:432)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:925)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:856)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:946)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:848)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647)
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:822)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:502)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:171)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:953)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:408)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1023)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:589)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:312)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: 'neu/als/KnowledgeLevel.drl' cannot be opened because it does not exist
    at org.drools.io.impl.ClassPathResource.getURL(ClassPathResource.java:165)
    at org.drools.io.impl.ClassPathResource.getLastModified(ClassPathResource.java:177)
    ... 40 more

What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE:

Here is my web.xml

<servlet>
      <servlet-name>ThesisProject</servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>
         org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
      </servlet-class>
      <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>ThesisProject</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

  <context-param>
     <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
     <param-value>/WEB-INF/ThesisProject-servlet.xml</param-value>
  </context-param>

  <listener>
     <listener-class>
        org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
     </listener-class>
  </listener>

and my bean config

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

  <context:component-scan base-package="com.neu.als.thesis.web.controllers" />

  <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/" />
    <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
  </bean>

</beans>

Added some configuration

Answer 1

Your knowledge base is being built using "neu/als/KnowledgeLevel" as the classpath, whereas according to your directory structure, the correct path would be "com/neu/als/KnowledgeLevel".

I wouldn't expect src/main/rules to be on the project classpath, which could also impact this.

I usually keep my rules under src/main/resources so that Maven builds them into the classpath.