Hello folks,
Sorry for barging in by subscribing to this developers alias
We are a Intellectual capital Management team in Cisco Systems. We have been using our own engines to do specific jobs for past 10 years, as part of future growth we have decided to do away with our own custom engines and use the drools engine to do Inference & event management rules. Good choice .. :)
We have evaluated the capabilities of rule authoring UIs in drools and have faced some resistance from our Subject Matter Experts to build our own UIs .. basically some templates which they can fill out instead of understanding the complexities of Guvnor. Also we felt that some layer of abstraction could be provided above guvnor UI since it does not yet provide support for IC (Fusion based)
Approach:
We are trying to put in some extensions to BRL to support the fusion usecases and any other which we need. The reason we are doing it to BRL is the same as yours .. that UI editors work with XML kind of structure instead of a DRL file.
So eventually we would also enhance the BRL->DRL converters and provide support in BRL to ObjectContainment (Facts containing collection of facts) and provide testing capabilities for inference and event IC.
Concern:
If we make any enhancements to BRL then we would want to integrate back to community code so we can utilize any extensions to the BRL, DRL and converters which are done by community and do not paint ourselves in a corner.
We can share our work to provide ideas back to community and may be we can provide some other enhancements for the community.
Can you kindly guide us on how to make these enhancements and how do we contribute to the code. and any standards and guidelines pages.
Regards,
Amit