Fernando Meyer

JBoss Drools 4.0 Released

Posted by Fernando Meyer on July 25, 2007

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
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My Books arrived 2

Posted by Fernando Meyer on July 18, 2007

My books from amazon arrived (with nice gifts from New York redhaters) yesterday. I spend about 2 hours reading some random pages and I can drop some lines about:

The IA book, I studied with the same book at university. so I just ordered to get the new 2002 version, but the ~~mother…~~ nice seller sent me the outdated 95’s version.
Principles of the Business Rule Approach, this book is a nice introduction to business rules, it explains all concepts in the natural way, some step-by-step topics are very interesting to figure out the more complicated rules concepts.
Jess in Action - that’s another book which you must have in your library, but don’t seize at it (try drools instead)
Expert Systems: Principles and Programming - That’s certainly the most advanced book I’ve ordered, so I must dive/read/assimilate more to write a good review.