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

[Thomas Söhngen]

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
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