Fernando Meyer

JBoss Drools 4.0 has just been released. We are really proud of what we have done here. We believe that we now have the best and most powerful declarative rule language, bar none; commercial or open source. The Rule Flow is excellent and I really enjoyed updating the Conway’s Game of Life to Rule Flow; sub Rule Flows and milestone support will be coming in a point release soon. The BRMS has long been requested and we put a lot of effort into the ajax based design. The Eclipse improvements for the debug points and guided editor should help reduce learning curves, opening us to new audiences. Of course performance is now much better, especially for complex rules and the new Sequential Mode should be very popular with decision services.
Enjoy
The Drools Team
Mark Proctor, Michael Neale, Edson Tirelli, Kris Verlaenen, Fernando Meyer
http://blog.athico.com

Open source JBoss Rules gains speed

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/16/jboss-rules_1.html

JBoss also extends business rules engine to nonprogrammers, adds MVEL language support

Essencial Drools blog reading

http://markproctor.blogspot.com/2007/07/essential-drools-blog-reading.html

I just did a post into Mark Proctor’s Blog covering a short tutorial about BRMS (Business Rules Management System).

http://markproctor.blogspot.com/2007/07/discount-insurance-brokers-example-for.html

Check this out.