Hi Mark,<br><br>I got excited about the possibilities so I tried to port Drools over about 6 months ago and got hung up for all of the reasons you have mentioned.... <br><br>I would like to point out (as I experiment w/the AlphaPad Android 4 Tablet -> wholesale from China) that the 'new' up and coming Android tablets really 'do' have plenty of processing power and capacity to handle the Rete Algorithm. <br>
<br>I have ported Prolog to the Android platform (B&N Color Nook) and as long as it's loaded 'properly' it runs plenty fast.<br><br>I also suspect that the corporate market would have some hidden (but quite profitable) uses for Drools on the Android Tablet Platform, as I think the flood of Cheap high quality Tablets that I think China will flood the US market with, is inevitable. I live in the Netherlands (X-Pat from Chicago), so we get to see some of these trends before they hit the mainland. <br>
<br>Just food for thought, and congrats on a great product! :-)<br><br>-matt<br><br>****************<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Mark Proctor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mproctor@codehaus.org" target="_blank">mproctor@codehaus.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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currently drools relies on runtime code generation, and our
architecture is built around that. I think it may run already if you
use pure MVEL with 5.4 - or atleast a few tweaks and it shoud run.
1) probably stop the JIT kicking in to ASM bytecode statements. 2) I
think I remember some classloader problem, android needs parent
classloader. The other option is we pre-generate all our generated
bytecode and put it in a jar so it can be resolved when needed.<br>
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I've not prioritised it, because our Rete algorithm can be too eager
for mobile enviornments. However I almost have lazy rete working,
that merges the benefits of Rete and Leaps; the resulting algorithm
is ideal for mobile enviornments. Once I get that working, I'll be
more keen to accelerate our mobile efforts.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Mark</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
On 14/05/2012 21:02, Matthew Versaggi wrote:
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Great News! <br>
<br>
Is there any talk about porting Drools to Android 4 by chance?<br>
<br>
Inquiring Minds want to know .... :-)<br>
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-matt<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <a href="http://blog.athico.com/2012/05/drools-540final-released.html" target="_blank">http://blog.athico.com/2012/05/drools-540final-released.html</a><br>
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We are happy to announce the release of Drools (Expert,
Fusion, Planner, Guvnor) <b>5.4.0.Final</b>. jBPM 5.3.0
announcement will follow shortly and the link will be added
when it does.<br>
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Documentation, Release Notes and Downloads are detailed
below:<br>
<ul>
<li>Download the zips from the bottom of <a href="http://www.jboss.org/drools/downloads" target="_blank">the drools download page</a>.</li>
<ul>
<li>To try out the examples, just unzip one and run a
runExamples.sh/.bat script.</li>
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<li>See the JBoss Maven repository for <a href="https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/index.html#nexus-search;gav%7Eorg.drools*%7E%7E5.4.0.Final%7E%7E" target="_blank">a list of all released artifacts</a>.</li>
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<li>It will be synced to <a href="http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7Final%7Corg.drools" target="_blank">Maven Central</a> automatically in
a couple of hours.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><b><a href="http://docs.jboss.org/drools/release/5.4.0.Final/droolsjbpm-introduction-docs/html/releaseNotesSimple.html" target="_blank">Read the new and noteworthy changes
here.</a></b></li>
</ul>
Try it out and give us some feed-back (<a href="http://www.jboss.org/drools/lists" target="_blank">user
list</a>, <a href="https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES" target="_blank">issue tracker</a>).<br>
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Some new online videos, make sure you change youtube setting
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omj4PR3v-nI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omj4PR3v-nI</a><br>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/35472874" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/35472874</a><br>
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<b>Importing Excel Decision Tables</b><br>
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