That is great Mark , But we need this a little early as we are evaluating drools against our Business requirements and till now it meets most of the requirements , not sure if i can post my questions for drools team and will be able to get the answers so that i can show my confidence against drools and recommend it.

Please let me know. Regards, Ashish On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Darren Hartford <dhartford(a)ghsinc.com <mailto:dhartford@ghsinc.com>> wrote: One discussion that might be helpful for those that are evaluating Drools (or rather, rule engines in general) is talking about items like: 1) What steps to take to convert an existing application to instead use Drools (and the benefits/gains). Specifically, what parts of some type of sample application would be better handled in Drools rather than raw java code, and what should be left as-is (with emphasis on change management/quick change support gains when swapping to Drools). 2) Starting a new application, how to start the application creation process to get the most benefit out of Drools (from requirements gathering -> implementation -> deployed and now need to make other changes). I know those sound too much like business stuff than geeky stuff, but sometimes the geek in us wants to hand-code everything and we need some good guidance/real-world hands-on reasoning for a better approach. My two coppers, -D -----Original Message----- From: rules-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org> [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org>] On Behalf Of Knapp, Barry Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:44 AM To: Rules Users List; Rules Dev List Cc: Burr Sutter Subject: RE: [rules-users] Drools Community Clinic Feb 4th 5PM GMT Mark, This is an awesome idea! In my company I am often talking about and promoting Drools so what is most interesting to my audience is how you guys are fine tuning the BRMS and Execution integrations as well as making it easier to incorporate the engine into an existing bus. The incorporation into an existing bus had always been one of the more customized areas where I spend time mapping a custom xml to the fact model, but with the new pipeline features in the M5 release it sounds like this integration is much easier. I would really like to see a simple walkthrough example of these new features. Once I have this under my belt I feel pretty confident that I can have brown bags at my own company and go from nothing to a complete management / execution environment that can process xml requests in about 60 minutes. That kind of turnaround can seal the deal! Thanks- Barry -----Original Message----- From: rules-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org> [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org>] On Behalf Of Mark Proctor Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 6:43 AM To: Rules Users List; Rules Dev List Cc: Burr Sutter Subject: [rules-users] Drools Community Clinic Feb 4th 5PM GMT I'm going to try an informal experiment for the 4th of February at 5PM GMT (Date/Time subject to change), we will run an online Drools Clinic in the form of a Webinar. So the idea here isn't of a 60 minute presentation, but really more of a 60 minute interactive Q&A where we will use the desktop to assist in some explanations talking through code or examples. What do people think? Ideally we would have a set of pre-determined questions, with some adhoc ones on the day too. Feel free to start listing your Qs here. I want to avoid "What's WorkingMemory" type questions, but other than that, anything is game. Also if anyone has anything cool they would like to discuss about how they have used Drools, or just general interesting AI ideas, then that's fine too - happy for this just to turn into a fun geek chat too. Mark _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-users@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-users@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org <mailto:rules-users@lists.jboss.org> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users