On 1/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arvind Patil</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:arvind1905@gmail.com">arvind1905@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Why do you say that Drools 2.5 is a &quot;different beast&quot;? </div>
<div>Could you please elaborate on that?</div></blockquote><div><br>There are a huge array of changes since 2.5 - completely different rule format, the internals have been rewritten (more complete RETE implementation, etc), IDE support, and so on.&nbsp; And assuming you see all or most of these as improvements, you could argue that Drools 
2.5 isn&#39;t as good a rule engine.<br><br>That said, if it does the job for you, it&#39;s a viable choice -- we still have projects using 2.5, and it&#39;s not posing a problem for us.<br></div><br>&nbsp; - Geoffrey<br></div>
-- <br>Geoffrey Wiseman<br>