It�s been a good few weeks for stories and information about JBoss Rules and Drools, the open source project upstream of the JBoss subscription offering. Here is a quick summary of the recent stories. Post a comment if you know of any others we all should pay attention to.
- Pierre Fricke, JBoss product manager, writes about Daiwa Securities America Improves Performance and Reduces Costs with JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform. The Red Hat press release says, �In addition to the (JBoss) Portal Platform, Daiwa also uses the JBoss Rules framework to embed alerts into portal applications.�
- Two articles on Drools were published in Red Hat Magazine, Introduction to Drools: Rules fall from your eyes and JBoss Drools meets Hibernate. Both pieces are a good introduction to working with Drools.
- Drools continues to grow its library of widgets for the Guv�nor, which is the web tool and rules repository of Drools, formerly known just as the �Drools BRMS.� This new widget, rolodex, adds a flipping slideshow of photos pulled using Google Web Toolkit.
- A beta implementation of WordNet for Drools is being talked up by project lead Mark Proctor; they are seeking comments from users/testers in the Drools mailing list.
- Mark Proctor also writes, �We often get asked about Drools scalability in complex apps, so I thought I would link to this posting just done, where someone has Drools scaling to 900K facts on a 64bit JVM with reasonable performance.�
- More tools and features are being included in Drools all the time, such as adding Smooks as a data loader.
