Planner is being used in production in lots of case cases (off the top of my head: satellites bandwidth scheduling, pipe cutting, advertisement scheduling, employee rostering, ...). It's not productized (yet) by Red Hat. For more information about Planner productization, contact your local Red Hat sales office or our Product Manager. http://engage.jboss.com/forms/jboss-contact-sales Except for the cloud balancing and nqueens problem, the example specific documentation is indeed meager, but 1) it's getting better (contributions welcome) and 2) they often have a link to the official competition, which explains the problem in detail. However, all the important techniques to solve those examples (such as chaining for vrp, construction heuristics, tabu search, ...) are explained one by one in the rest of the manual. All example's code is up to date, but some are better (curriculum course, vehicle routing, ...) than others (examination, miss manners, ttp). Is there's a specific example you're interested in seeing better explained?