Recently I (and Mark) attended JBoss World in Berlin. We ran a few sessions on rules, and had 2 excellent end user presentations, all was well received. Its good to see the cool stuff people are doing with rules, so I thought I would share a summary. Content Based Routing – Michael Frandsen (Syngenio) ContentRead more →
I have been beaving away on a new UI/rule modeller specifically for the web (well, at least the web initially, hopefully we will also do it stand alone in the plug in soon). This came about for 2 reasons:1) DSLs have proven to be quite popular, and we want to make them available on theRead more →
Version 3.0.5 is now available, from downloads and the plug-in update site. This is the latest release of our current “production” branch of JBoss Rules. Watch this space for news of a milestone release very soon of the next major version. Thanks to all out there who submitted bugs/fixes/patches and enhancements. See below for ReleaseRead more →
One of the most frequently asked questions around is “Why would I want to use a Business Rules Engine?”. Usually this question is immediately followed and is related to: “When should I use a Business Rules Engine and when should I not?”. Googling out there you will find several posts, papers and books about it.Read more →
As some of you already know, Drools 3.1m1 will be out of the door any minute now. The Drools name is used for project development releases, which are also unsupported – eventually the code is hardened and released to production as JBoss Rules 3.2. This new release is a a big improvement over the 3.0.xRead more →
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 →
