Production Rule systems, such as JBoss Rules are just one form of declarative programming; I believe that to meet the challenges of tomorrows technology we need to be looking at a unified tooling and platform approach to declarative programming. Workflow/BPM has been the predominant declarative approach for a while and Production Rules are one ofRead more →
— Michael NealeBoth Mark and myself recently returned from the highly informative Business Rules Forum (in Washington DC). The business rules industry seems to be in quite good shape, and there was a strong showing from all the vendors. I thought I would start with some summaries in general of what we saw, and whatRead more →
We are working on a new non-imperative conseqeuence language for JBoss Ruless, called JFDI which is a sort of business action scripting language. We have placed this project over at Codehaus as we are hoping that it will get taken up by other declarative systems, whether they are rule or process engines. When we firstRead more →
The subject of DynaBeans just came up on the mailing list, and it is one I’ve been asked about before – so I thought I would do a blog my answer. Dynabeans was written as a solution for Struts back in 2000, they are not JavaBean compliant – thus they have no value outside ofRead more →
The subject of DynaBeans just came up on the mailing list, and it is one I’ve been asked about before – so I thought I would do a blog my answer. Dynabeans was written as a solution for Struts back in 2000, they are not JavaBean compliant – thus they have no value outside ofRead more →
I’ve just spent the last four weeks stuck in front jProfiler taking JBoss Rules performance to the next level and the results have been great and well beyond what I hoped. To achieve this I wrote custom collections, unrolled loops and cached variables that are used repeatedly for join attempts. I really feel I’ve takenRead more →
A rule has many similarities to a query. It contains one or more propositional and first order logic statements organised into a network to filter data additions and changes – we call this a “discrimitation network” as it discrimates against data that does not match its statements. Any data that successfully matches all statements forRead more →
Many people are asking what our plans are for a Rules Server – so I thought I would write them up in visio and blog them, for bonus measure I have added some screenshots of the GWT gui that Michael is working on. Post Comment
One of the selling features of Drools, and one of the reasons we are often chosen over competitors, has always been the ability to allow the use of Java code in specific parts of rules; expressions and consequences. This makes for a lower learning curve as Java developers can start writing consequences without additional training;Read more →
