I have created the first Quick Start movie, which is an introductory tutorial to the BRMS. This is my first attempt using “Wink” – and I realized that I had the screen resolution set too high after the fact, so consider this a practice run. I would appreciate any feedback on this. Click the imageRead more →
I’ve recently just done a project where JBoss Rules was used via web services. So thought I’d detail parts of what I did. With this particular project only the root object from the payload was asserted, the payload was not split into smaller relational objects and asserted, which is generally considered best practice; however weRead more →
Today I had to give a 20 minute presentation on what’s new in JBoss Rules 4.0. Obviously we have so much stuff we can’t possibly get all of that across in 20 minutes, but I hope that I got the main points of interest in there. Anyway I thought others might be interested in theRead more →
I’m currently working hard to finish off the pluggeable dialect system, this is similar to the semantic modules we had in Drools 2.0. With this people will be able to write drl dialect implementatinos for any language they like and then users can use that language to author their predicates, return values, evals and consequences.Read more →
Kris has worked his magic again and it’s now possible to make decisions on ‘split’ and ‘join’ nodes in Rule Flow. ‘split’ nodes now support ‘and’, ‘or’ and ‘xor’ type decisions while ‘join’ supports ‘and’ and ‘or’. The beautiful part of this is its fully tooled and the decisions are specialised rules, so you canRead more →
Edson has been doing great work on the expressiveness of rules, it’s now possible to use && and || on field values and between fields themselves inside of a Pattern: Person( age > 30 && < 40 || hair =="black" ) Note the || here is different than the ‘or’ conditional element, which works onRead more →
Antlr 3.0 has been released, see the announcement at TSS. I can’t say enough about this fanastic tool, it’s work like this that will be the underpinnings on the next generation languages. Terence, here’s to another 4 years of Antlr development, I can’t wait for incremental parsing and for someone to port AntlrWorks to EclipseRead more →
Tim Shadel, an IT Manager at Apollo Group Inc, did a JBoss Rules presentation for the Pheonix JUG and made the pdf available in his blog, which I have also made available here. Apollo Group Inc is a S&P 500 company that provides adult education services. The stats he provides in the presentation make forRead more →
The BRMS (Business Rule Management System) has been in the works for sometime. Well, finally, there is something you can use, which works end to end. This is now part of the JBoss Rules 4 Milestone releases, so please, go ahead and start testing it ! There has been great work going on elsewhere inRead more →
Seems Eclipse Visual Editor (VE) has hit hard times, see David Orme’s blog, this is a very sad place for Eclipse to be with no FOSS alternative to Netbeans Matisee; I don’t think the importance of a high quality FOSS GUI builder for SWT and JFACE should be underestimated. There is still the excellent commercialRead more →
