If you have an object property of type BigDecimal (and this property is exposed through a getter that returns a BigDecimal), building rules that compare this property is a little tricky as the comparison will default to a string-comparison which is not very useful in most cases, or will result in a ClassCastException if you try to compare to a numeric.

NOTE: in trunk, this has been changed to support BigDecimal and BigInteger directly. this will NOT be rolled into the 3.0.x branch, but be in the next major release.

Assume the following:

public class AnObject {

     private BigDecimal theBD;

     public BigDecimal getTheBD() {
          return theBD;
     }

}

And the following rule(which will not work and give a ClassCastException)

rule "Bigger"
     when
          m : AnObject(theBD >= 0)
     then
          System.out.println( "Greater than 0" ); 
end

The comparison should be done as follow:

rule "Bigger"
     when
          

m : AnObject(v:theBD -> (v.doubleValue() >= 0))

     then
          System.out.println( "Greater than 0" ); 
end