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Hi,<br>
I am currently evaluating Drools for our needs, from the features
it seems to be a perfect fit. I am a Java developer, but
unfortunately I have no background in enterprise application servers
and I am currently stuck trying to setup a testing environment. A
short summary of our current setup and how we want to use Drools:
<ul>
<li>We are using <a href="https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm"
target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">Storm</a> to
accumulate a large number of messages from around the web</li>
<li>From these we create streams of message metadata (like
sentiment) for different topics (like stocks) </li>
<li>We have additional streams like stock-tickers</li>
<li>We have a knowledge-base of additional facts about companies
(like market cap.) in MySQL</li>
<li>We want users to be able to define alerts triggered by rules
based on these streams and facts</li>
</ul>
Storm is perfect for the data pre-processing and aggregation, Drools
would fit in to allow outsiders to define rules and evaluate them on
the streams in realtime. My idea is, to run Drools Fusion as a
stand-alone application on a dedicated server or cluster of servers.
Drools Guvnor would be used as an interface for the rules. The rules
would trigger new events, which would be sent to a subscription
channel (like Redis Pub/Sub).
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As mentioned above, I have no experience in setting up and running
Java application servers. The Drools documentation seems to be very
elaborate, but assume that you know how to start such a service from
scratch, which I don't. I know Java, but not at an enterprise level,
so all the Beans, wars, etc. are new to me. I setup a JBoss AS,
which was a pretty easy thing to do, but I am clueless about how to
really "run" Drools on it and what to do next.
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So what would be the next steps to get a server, where I can send
messages to? Are there any tutorials or guidelines which describe
how to built such a thing from the very beginning? Any help or
suggestion would be very appreciated!
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Regards & thanks in advance,
<br>
Thomas Söhngen
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