[rules-dev] M1

[Edson Tirelli]

    Mark,

    Follows the list of main features added to core/compiler I was able 
to get from JIRA.
    Do you want me to ellabora on each item or the JIRA is enough and we 
focus on documentation? I think it would be good to start a wiki page on 
migration from 3.0.x to 3.2. What do you think?

    []s
    Edson

LANGUAGE IMPROVEMENTS

* New conditional elements: from, collect, accumulate, forall
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-486
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-337
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-341
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-218

* Full support to FOL: nesting of elements now complete
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-218

* Support to connective constraints:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-216

* Parser improvements:
- Keyword conflicts resolved
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-214
- Better support to line breaks
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-269
- Support to escaped characters inside strings
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-519

* Primitive type support: no more autoboxing/unboxing
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-527

* Support to Templates:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-330

* Support to additional predicate syntax:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-556

CORE IMPROVEMENTS:

* Shadow facts:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-44

* Support to constraints between fields of the same object:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-515

* Performance improvements
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-484
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-498
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-526

* Specialized "exists" node for performance:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-547

-- 
 Edson Tirelli
 Software Engineer - JBoss Rules Core Developer
 Office: +55 11 3124-6000
 Mobile: +55 11 9218-4151
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Mark Proctor wrote:

> M1 binaries are uploading to the server now. I'm uploading docs,but 
> they are unchanged as of 3.0, we will work on docs once we hit the RC 
> stage.
>
> We do still need a "new and noteworthy" just to give people a starting 
> point of the new stuff. Edson and kris, think you can send me 
> something in html I can include? Once I have that I'll make the 
> binaries public.
>
> Mark
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-- 
 Edson Tirelli
 Software Engineer - JBoss Rules Core Developer
 Office: +55 11 3124-6000
 Mobile: +55 11 9218-4151
 JBoss, a division of Red Hat @ www.jboss.com