[rules-users] Clarification regarding the use of Guvnor

[Andrew Nguyen]

Hello all,

I am a very new Drools user and am trying to expose it as a web- 
service.  Due to my experience with Spring, I went ahead and  
implemented a basic rule engine and exposed it as a web service via  
Spring.  I am now looking at integrating it with Guvnor to allow non- 
computer people, who are domain experts, to modify the rules.  From  
what I have read in the v5 documentation, it sounds like Guvnor is  
intended as a complete solution to what I am trying to accomplish -  
i.e. it will handle the rule management as well as exposing the rule  
engine via JSON (or other interface).  But, when I have searched  
around the internet, Guvnor sounds like just a rule management  
component.

So, I pretty much have 3 questions:

* Is my current setup of Drools + Spring the best way to expose my  
rule engine to other applications?  (Specifically, a .NET/C# app...)
* Is Guvnor suitable for integrating into my system as only a rule  
management system?

Thanks!

--Andrew
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Andrew Nguyen
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