[rules-dev] Mario Fusco to join as core Drools engine developer

[Jervis Liu]

Welcome on board, Mario!

Cheers,
Jervis

On 2011/7/19 7:19, Mark Proctor wrote:
> It gives me great pleasure to announce that Mario Fusco will be 
> joining the Drools team to work on the core engine in August.
>
> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-akW2uD65cMk/TiStROLDV7I/AAAAAAAAAgM/jWKgD-qIqkM/s1600/MarioFusco.jpg>
>
> Mario is the author of OSS Lambdaj which brings functional programming 
> and closures to java, and the Hammurabi Scala rule engine.
>
> Lambdaj
> http://code.google.com/p/lambdaj/
> http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2009/08/08/J1-2009-MarioFusco-Lambdaj.html 
> (JavaOne Audio podcast)
>
> Hammurabi
> http://code.google.com/p/hammurabi/
> http://java.dzone.com/articles/hammurabi-scala-rule-engine
>
> Mario initially will be focusing on improving the end user experience 
> of the core engine, specifically in authoring DRL. Below is a list of 
> areas he'll be responsible for, during his first 6 months. Of course 
> he isn't limited to just those :)
>
>     * Improved syntax error reporting
>     * Killing all parser bugs and also expression and action
>       evaluation bugs.
>     * Better masking of the underlying execution engine (MVEL leaks
>       too much)
>     * Helping us move to a single language (no more dialects).
>     * Micro benchmarking so we can better track performance and memory
>       regressions
>     * ASM bytecode compilation so we can reduce our dependency on JDT
>       over time, which is too heavy. ASM will allow a more runtime JIT
>       approach to expressions and actions.
>     * Maintaining the Eclipse DRL editor.
>     * Help with future DRL design discussions especially on functional
>       programming.
>
> More importantly this allows core maintenance to be spread across more 
> people, which gives Edson and myself more time to do research so we 
> can innovate faster.
>
>
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