[jboss-user] [JBoss jBPM] - Should I use Drools?

[jjdepaul]

Sorry, didn't know where else to post this message about using Drools...  Please help me decide if Drools rules engine would work for us.  

We are designing a system that will process multitude of events from various systems (with MQ and JMS on WebSphere server).  These events represent shipment notifications with attributes such as clientID, location, package#, date, time, weight, etc -  there are lots of events (about 100+ per minute).  We need to scrutinize each event that comes to us and look for potential subscribers - that is, parties that want to be notified of an event given a set of conditions they define.  Customer can define multiple  complex rules:  i.e.  notify me when my containers reach location SFC or STL for a given package# range and date combination... etc.  The system needs to compare each event to these customer-defined rules to see if a Match is found.  I believe the result of comparing Rules to Facts should result in either ONE or ZERO matches ...

If a match DOES exist, then do something:  return True, fire another Event, OR invoke jBPM process flow (ideally).

Does it sound like Drools could do this type of pattern matching for us - and if so, could it do it efficiently?

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