Re: [rules-users] JBoss Drools 4.0 Released

Mark, Any idea when 4.0GA will be up on the jboss maven repo? Thanks! Eric On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 10:04 +0100, Mark Proctor wrote: > JBoss Drools 4.0 has just been released :) We are really proud of what > we have done here. We believe that we now have the best and most > powerful declarative rule language, bar none; commercial or open source. > The Rule Flow is excellent and I really enjoyed updating the Conway's > Game of Life to Rule Flow; sub Rule Flows and milestone support will be > coming in a point release soon. The BRMS has long been requested and we > put a lot of effort into the ajax based design. The Eclipse improvements > for the debug points and guided editor should help reduce learning > curves, opening us to new audiences. Of course performance is now much > better, especially for complex rules and the new Sequential Mode should > be very popular with decision services. > > Boss Drools 4.0 can be summarised as: > * More expressiveness. > * More powerful declarative keywords. > * Hibernate ready, with 'from' keyword for evaluating external data. > * Pluggable dialects, with new MVEL dialect. > * New Rule Flow and Eclipse modeller. > * Better Performance. > * IDE Improvements. > * Enterprise Ready with Web 2.0 Business Rules Management Studio. > > Resources: > * Presentation from Skills Matter > http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/attach?page=JBossRules%2FSkillsMatter20070711.pdf > * What's new in JBoss Rules 4.0 > http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/attach?page=JBossRules%2Fwhats_new_in_jbossrul... > > Enjoy :) > The Drools Team > Mark Proctor, Michael Neale, Edson Tirelli, Kris Verlaenen, Fernando Meyer > http://blog.athico.com > > Here is a more detailed enhancements list: > Language Expressiveness Enhancements > * New Conditional Elements: from(hibernate ready), collect, accumulate > and forall > * New Field Constraint operators: not matches, not contains, in, not in, > memberOf, not memberOf > * New Implicit Self Reference field: this > * Full support to Conditional Elements nesting, for First Order Logic > completeness. > * Support to multi-restrictions and constraint connectives && and || > * Parser improvements to remove previous language limitations, like > character escaping and keyword conflicts > * Support to pluggable dialects and built-in support to Java and MVEL > * Complete rewrite of DSL engine, allowing for full l10n > * Fact attributes auto-vivification for return value restrictions and > inline-eval constraints > * Support to nested accessors, property navigation and simplified > collection, arrays and maps syntax > * Improved support to XML rules > * Experimental Clips parser support > > Core Engine Enhancements > * Native support to primitive types, avoiding constant autoboxing > * Transparent optional Shadow Facts > * Rete Network performance improvements for complex rules > * Rule-Flow > * Stateful and Stateless working memories (rule engine sessions) > * Support for Asynchronous Working Memory actions > * Rules Engine Agent for hot deployment and BRMS integration > * Pluggeable dialects and and full support to MVEL scripting language > * Dynamic salience for rules conflict resolution > * Parameterized Queries > * halt command > * Sequential execution mode, faster performance and uses less memory > * Pluggable global variable resolver > > IDE Enhancements > * Support for rule break-points on debugging > * WYSIWYG support to rule-flows > * New guided editor for rules authoring > * Upgrade to support all new engine features > > Business Rules Management System - BRMS > * User friendly web interface with nice WEB 2.0 ajax features (GWT) > * Package configuration > * Rule Authoring easy to edit rules both with guided editor ( drop-down > menus ) and text editor > * Package compilation and deployment > * Easy deployment with Rule Agent > * Easy to organize with categories and search assets > * Versioning enabled, you can easily replace yours assets with > previously saved > * JCR compliant rule assets repository > > Miscellaneous Enhancements > * Slimmed down dependencies and smaller memory footprint > > _______________________________________________ > 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