[rules-users] How to start with Drools Fusion as a Java enterprise newbie

Hi, I am currently evaluating Drools for our needs, from the features it seems to be a perfect fit. I am a Java developer, but unfortunately I have no background in enterprise application servers and I am currently stuck trying to setup a testing environment. A short summary of our current setup and how we want to use Drools: * We are using Storm <https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm> to accumulate a large number of messages from around the web * From these we create streams of message metadata (like sentiment) for different topics (like stocks) * We have additional streams like stock-tickers * We have a knowledge-base of additional facts about companies (like market cap.) in MySQL * We want users to be able to define alerts triggered by rules based on these streams and facts Storm is perfect for the data pre-processing and aggregation, Drools would fit in to allow outsiders to define rules and evaluate them on the streams in realtime. My idea is, to run Drools Fusion as a stand-alone application on a dedicated server or cluster of servers. Drools Guvnor would be used as an interface for the rules. The rules would trigger new events, which would be sent to a subscription channel (like Redis Pub/Sub). As mentioned above, I have no experience in setting up and running Java application servers. The Drools documentation seems to be very elaborate, but assume that you know how to start such a service from scratch, which I don't. I know Java, but not at an enterprise level, so all the Beans, wars, etc. are new to me. I setup a JBoss AS, which was a pretty easy thing to do, but I am clueless about how to really "run" Drools on it and what to do next. So what would be the next steps to get a server, where I can send messages to? Are there any tutorials or guidelines which describe how to built such a thing from the very beginning? Any help or suggestion would be very appreciated! Regards & thanks in advance, Thomas Söhngen