Re: [rules-dev] Mario Fusco to join as core Drools engine developer

On 19/07/2011 01:12, Michael Neale wrote: Great ! And a scala fiend too ! Brilliant ! he also has a beard, so he must be good :) Mark On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Mark Proctor <mproctor(a)codehaus.org&gt;wrote: > It gives me great pleasure to announce that Mario Fusco will be joining > the Drools team to work on the core engine in August. > > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-akW2uD65cMk/TiStROLDV7I/AAAAAAAAAgM/jWKgD-qIqkM... > > Mario is the author of OSS Lambdaj which brings functional programming and > closures to java, and the Hammurabi Scala rule engine. > > Lambdaj > http://code.google.com/p/lambdaj/ > > http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2009/08/08/J1-2009-MarioFusco-Lambdaj.h... Audio podcast) > > Hammurabi > http://code.google.com/p/hammurabi/ > http://java.dzone.com/articles/hammurabi-scala-rule-engine > > Mario initially will be focusing on improving the end user experience of > the core engine, specifically in authoring DRL. Below is a list of areas > he'll be responsible for, during his first 6 months. Of course he isn't > limited to just those :) > > - Improved syntax error reporting > - Killing all parser bugs and also expression and action evaluation > bugs. > - Better masking of the underlying execution engine (MVEL leaks too > much) > - Helping us move to a single language (no more dialects). > - Micro benchmarking so we can better track performance and memory > regressions > - ASM bytecode compilation so we can reduce our dependency on JDT over > time, which is too heavy. ASM will allow a more runtime JIT approach to > expressions and actions. > - Maintaining the Eclipse DRL editor. > - Help with future DRL design discussions especially on functional > programming. > > More importantly this allows core maintenance to be spread across more > people, which gives Edson and myself more time to do research so we can > innovate faster. > > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev > > -- Michael D Neale home: www.michaelneale.net blog: michaelneale.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing listrules-dev@lists.jboss.orghttps://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list rules-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev