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:
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Guvnor (BRMS/BPMS)
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Expert (rule engine)
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Flow (process/workflow)
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Fusion (event processing/temporal reasoning)
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 Boot Camp : San Francisco, 1-7 of June 09
The Drools Boot Camp has the go ahead, a big thank you to Third Pillar for sponsoring the meeting room. The Drools team meeting forms the basis of the week long event, but we make it open to the public, free of charge, to participate as an informal boot camp. The Drools team will be there planning their next road map, hacking on new features and fixing some bugs - this will be a continous process throughout the week. We encourage you to participate and ideally contribute and we will provide lots of hand holding and mentoring.
We have scheduled some dedicated sessions for the following topics: Drools 5.0 Primer, Guvnor Internals, Advanced Engine and Domain Specific Workflow. Also if you are using Drools in a novel or interesting way and wish to do a short presentation please email Mark Proctor (mproctor at redhat d0t com).
More detail can be found here
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Thanks To:
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EJ-Technologies provide licenses for JProfiler for free, for the JBoss Drools project. |
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JetBrains has donated an IntelliJ license for use on opensource Drools projects.. |
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nexB are the preferred Eclipse development partner for Drools. |