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Drools 5 - The Business Logic integration Platform

Drools 5 introduces the Business Logic integration Platform which provides a unified and integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing. It's been designed from the ground up so that each aspect is a first class citizen, with no compromises.

Drools is now split up into 4 main sub projects, the documentation has already been split to reflect this, click on a module below for more detailed information:

Drools Guvnor (BRMS/BPMS)
Drools Expert (rule engine)
Drools Flow (process/workflow)
Drools Fusion (event processing/temporal reasoning)
Drools Planner

Drools, and it's sub projects, are community releases from JBoss.org that come without support. Community releases focus on fast paced innovation to give you the latest and greatest, with releases every few months that include both features and fixes. JBoss BRMS is our enterprise product from JBoss.com for mission critical releases, with a 5 year commitment for backport of fixes, based off a sanitised community release of Drools. A range of support packages are available including up to mission critical 24/7, as well as training and consultancy via our Global Professional Services unit. Email sales@jboss.com for more details.

Drools Introduction Video

http://blog.athico.com/2010/03/fosdem-50-minute-introduction-into.html

Drools Boot Camp : San Diego, 19th-23rd of April 2010

Mon-Tue (medical only)

The first two days are  exclusive to the medical community and only people from medical  organisations or with a medical background will be allowed to attend. By medical we also mean healthcare and pharmeceuticals.

Wed - Fri (general - open to all)

These days are open to everyone and all topics and industries are  open for discussion.

More detail can be found here.

Books

 

Thanks To:

The best Java IDE

EJ-Technologies provide licenses for JProfiler for free, for the JBoss Drools project.

The best Java IDE

JetBrains has donated an IntelliJ license for use on opensource Drools projects..

Eclipse Developer Partners

nexB are the preferred Eclipse development partner for Drools.