Hi Mark,<br><br>I got excited about the possibilities so I tried to port Drools over about 6 months ago and got hung up for all of the reasons you have mentioned.... <br><br>I would like to point out (as I experiment w/the AlphaPad Android 4 Tablet -&gt; wholesale from China) that the &#39;new&#39; up and coming Android tablets really &#39;do&#39; have plenty of processing power and capacity to handle the Rete Algorithm. <br>
<br>I have ported Prolog to the Android platform (B&amp;N Color Nook) and as long as it&#39;s loaded &#39;properly&#39; it runs  plenty fast.<br><br>I also suspect that the corporate market would have some hidden (but quite profitable) uses for Drools on the Android Tablet Platform, as I think the flood of Cheap high quality Tablets that I think China will flood the US market with, is inevitable. I live in the Netherlands (X-Pat from Chicago), so we get to see some of these trends before they hit the mainland. <br>
<br>Just food for thought, and congrats on a great product! :-)<br><br>-matt<br><br>****************<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Mark Proctor <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mproctor@codehaus.org" target="_blank">mproctor@codehaus.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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    currently drools relies on runtime code generation, and our
    architecture is built around that. I think it may run already if you
    use pure MVEL with 5.4 - or atleast a few tweaks and it shoud run.
    1) probably stop the JIT kicking in to ASM bytecode statements. 2) I
    think I remember some classloader problem, android needs parent
    classloader. The other option is we pre-generate all our generated
    bytecode and put it in a jar so it can be resolved when needed.<br>
    <br>
    I&#39;ve not prioritised it, because our Rete algorithm can be too eager
    for mobile enviornments. However I almost have lazy rete working,
    that merges the benefits of Rete and Leaps; the resulting algorithm
    is ideal for mobile enviornments. Once I get that working, I&#39;ll be
    more keen to accelerate our mobile efforts.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
    <br>
    Mark</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
    On 14/05/2012 21:02, Matthew Versaggi wrote:
    <blockquote type="cite">Hi Gents!<br>
      <br>
      Great News! <br>
      <br>
      Is there any talk about porting Drools to Android 4 by chance?<br>
      <br>
      Inquiring Minds want to know .... :-)<br>
      <br>
      -matt<br>
      <br>
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        On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Mark Proctor <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mproctor@codehaus.org" target="_blank">mproctor@codehaus.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <a href="http://blog.athico.com/2012/05/drools-540final-released.html" target="_blank">http://blog.athico.com/2012/05/drools-540final-released.html</a><br>
            ----link contents pasted below---<br>
            <br>
            We are happy to announce the release of Drools (Expert,
            Fusion, Planner, Guvnor) <b>5.4.0.Final</b>. jBPM 5.3.0
            announcement will follow shortly and the link will be added
            when it does.<br>
            <br>
            Documentation, Release Notes and Downloads are detailed
            below:<br>
            <ul>
              <li>Download the zips from the bottom of <a href="http://www.jboss.org/drools/downloads" target="_blank">the drools download page</a>.</li>
              <ul>
                <li>To try out the examples, just unzip one and run a
                  runExamples.sh/.bat script.</li>
              </ul>
              <ul>
                <li>See the JBoss Maven repository for <a href="https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/index.html#nexus-search;gav%7Eorg.drools*%7E%7E5.4.0.Final%7E%7E" target="_blank">a list of all released artifacts</a>.</li>

                <ul>
                  <li>It will be synced to <a href="http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7Final%7Corg.drools" target="_blank">Maven Central</a> automatically in
                    a couple of hours.</li>
                </ul>
              </ul>
              <li><b><a href="http://docs.jboss.org/drools/release/5.4.0.Final/droolsjbpm-introduction-docs/html/releaseNotesSimple.html" target="_blank">Read the new and noteworthy changes
                    here.</a></b></li>
            </ul>
            Try it out and give us some feed-back (<a href="http://www.jboss.org/drools/lists" target="_blank">user
              list</a>, <a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES" target="_blank">issue tracker</a>).<br>
            <br>
            Some new online videos, make sure you change youtube setting
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            <b>Build Pong in 13 Minutes</b><br>
            <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omj4PR3v-nI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omj4PR3v-nI</a><br>
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