[rules-dev] Drools 5.1 Released

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=60824 Drools 5.1 <http://downloads.jboss.com/drools/docs/5.1.1.34858.FINAL/drools-introduct... has been released. The main focus for this release has been around improved consumerability for users with declarative services based on Spring, Camel and CXF integration as well as the BPMN2 implementation for Flow and an improved Rete algorithm for reduced memory consumption providing better scalability for large number of objects. You can get full release details here: Drools 5.1 New and Noteworthy <http://downloads.jboss.com/drools/docs/5.1.1.34858.FINAL/drools-introduct... Download <http://www.jboss.org/drools/downloads.html> Documentation <http://jboss.org/drools/documentation.html> Drools Blog <http://blog.athico.com> Oryx integration for web based BPMN2 Authoring <http://blog.athico.com/2010/09/bpmn2-authoring-in-drools-guvnor.html> Core JMX Monitoring Spring, Camel and CXF integration Knowledge Agent Incremental Change Set Support Expert Differential Update (reduced memory consumption for better scalability) Channels Live Querries Timers and Calendars Flow BPMN2 (Eclipse + Web authoring) Pluggable Variable Persistence Guvnor Discussions Inbox (to monitor changes) Bulk Importer Built in Selector Working Sets Fact Constraints Guided editor improvements Rule Templates Oryx integration for web based BPMN2 editing (more details here <http://blog.athico.com/2010/09/bpmn2-authoring-in-drools-guvnor.html>) Rules Fest <http://rulesfest.org/html/home.html> Don't forget about the San Jose Rules Fest Oct 2010 <http://rulesfest.org/html/home.html>;. It's a 3 day event of talks followed by a one day Boot Camp with separate rooms for Jess, Drools&jBPM, Grind Works and Open Rules. You may attend the talks or the bootcamps or both. The Boot Camp will spend the morning introducing the 4 Drools technologies: Expert, Fusion, Flow and Guvnor and will additionally cover what's new in Drools 5.1. We will also discuss the plans for jBPM3, jBPM4 and Drools Flow. The afternoon will be an open floor where you can get time with us core developers for any questions, mentoring or assistance that you would like. Thanks Drools 5.1 wouldn't have been possible without the following people: Core: Mark Proctor Edson Tirelli Kris Verlaenen Toni Rikkola Geoffrey De Smet Jervis Liu Community: Antoine Toulm Wolfgang Laun Nicolas Héron Hadrian Zbarcea Tihomir Surdilovic Pablo Nussembaum Lucaz Amador Esteban Aliverti Diego López León Mauricio Salatino