May 2007
Will JBoss Rules 3.1 Do for BRE's What mySQL Did for RDBMS'?
by 1 otherWhile JBoss Rules 3.0.x has been a great step from its predecessor (the unfortunately named Drools) -- providing a rule editing environment, universal and existential quantifiers (the "not" A is the same as "for all" ~A), and Domain Specific Languages...
BRE Patterns III: Collaboration Cop, Part II
by 1 otherIn explaining this pattern, I wanted to take a step back and explain where and how OO and BRE's intersect. To start with, this excellent post over at Mark Proctor's blog makes the following statement: Assert all your objects as...
February 2007
Why Your Engine Should Support Programmatic Rule Generation
I've published an article over at the RealRules Blogzine on programmatic generation of rules, i.e. why and under what circumstances this makes sense. Check it out....
A Performance Comparison of Jess, Drools and MS-BRE
I have to apologize in advance. I'm in the middle of squeezing out a book chapter and haven't had time to tackle any of the BRE articles on my writing TODO list. So today I'm going to have to do...
Resources and Announcements
It's been a busy month that has taken me away from focusing on Business Rules, but things are almost back to normal and I should have another entry on BRE patterns out this coming week. In the meantime, I thought...
BRE Patterns III: Collaboration Cop, Part I
The pattern I'm writing about today -- Collaboration Cop -- is much meatier than the two previous ones, in my opinion. This one is all about transplanting the implicit and explicit business rules of an OO system from its objects...
July 2006
Business Rules: Your Business Rule System is a Fool
All that work in extracting your business rules and building a system could be for naught if you're facts are bad or your rules are inconsistent. This is the introduction to a series of articles that examine these problems and what to do about them.
September 2005
SourceForge.net: Project Info - JEOPS - Java based Rule Engine
This project seems to be dead. Time to revive?
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