Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:43:56 -0700 http://javarules.org/ javarules.org -- The Java Business Rules Community en-us http://javarules.org/images/logo.gif http://javarules.org/ editor@javarules.org http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=196 We wanted to call your attention to the several working drafts specifications that the rule interchange format (RIF) working group of the W3C has published recently for public comments [1]. Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:43:56 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=195 The Business Rules Management System Visual Rules Version 4.2 is now available. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:35:04 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=194 OpenRules, Inc. has published Step-By-Step Tutorials that demonstrate an integrated use of Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and OpenRules. The tutorial could be helpful for people who want to quickly create GWT applications with business rules components using any Java-based rule engine. Similar step-by-step tutorials are also available for other development frameworks including Spring, Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and RAD. Read more Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:49:12 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=193 The Business Rules Management System Visual Rules Version 4.1 is now available. New Features: - Debugging within the graphical model: Bug search with breakpoints and single-step execution - Profiling: Display of execution times for each rule element - Rule documentation also as a PDF-file - Incremental code generation - Ant tasks for automatic code generation, documentation and test execution - Extended inplace editing: New dialog for selecting all elements usable in a rule - A fine-granular search function for specific rule element types - Automatic assignment of data elements when calling rules - Use of expressions of any kind in decision tables - Task view with list of notes set in the rules > More Information > Download Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:22:09 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=192 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com Mon, 26 May 2008 15:20:47 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=191 Geek Rule Conference: October Rule Fest Fri, 23 May 2008 01:07:19 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=190 Visual Rules is an especially intuitive and high-performance Business Rules Management System for creating and managing business rules. Business logic is modeled, tested, monitored and managed in a simple but powerful graphical interface. It is now available for downloading a free test license. Download: Visual Rules 4 Wed, 21 May 2008 01:07:42 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=189 KBSC has posted lots of rulebase-oriented white papers Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:02:50 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=188 Dallas Rules Group to host Rules Conference Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:02:10 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=187 On March 29, 2008 OpenRules, Inc. announced the availability of a new major release OpenRules 5.0. New Rule Templates essentially simplify rule repository construction and management at the same time expediting initialization and execution of the OpenRules Engine. Rule Templates allow a rule designer to completely exclude implementation details from business rules. With OpenRules-5 business analysts receive even more control over business rules management and technical people receive more freedom by changing a few templates without any changes in multiple rules that extend these templates. See examples here. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:38:43 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=186 ILOG Rules for .NET 3.0 provides updated features for rule editing, platform upgrades, service-oriented architecture (SOA) features, improved installation tools and enhanced performance. For more details: http://www.ilog.com/products/rulesnet http://blogs.ilog.com/brms/2008/01/25/nothing-but-net/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:49:12 -0800 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=185 Visual Rules is the only Business Rules Management System (BRMS) that offers a consistent graphical modeling approach. In the spring of 2008 Visual Rules' vendor, Innovations, will introduce Version 4 to the market. It is available now for beta testing. Visual Rules 4 represents the next generation in BRM: it is user friendly and offers top performance and scalability with simplicity of integration. And it supports Eclipse 3.3 too! Anyone interested in testing the beta version is invited to contact Innovations. Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:37:04 -0800 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=184 Australian company RuleBurst today announced its acquisition of U.S-based Haley Systems. Stephen D Hendrick, Group Vice President of Application Development and Deployment Research at IDC, says, “The acquisition of Haley Systems by RuleBurst will create the 4th largest company in worldwide BRMS market and give RuleBurst a material presence in North America”. Haley President and CEO Hans Witt adds, “In RuleBurst we found the ideal partner for taking our technology to the next level on a global basis. With our complementary approaches to rules technology and our shared vision of the essential role of business users, the combined company will emerge as a market leader. The success both companies have already achieved is indicative of the growing level of interest in business rules technology, especially for Government and financial services.” Full press release at: http://www.ruleburst.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=80 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:45:52 -0800 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=183 James Owen (who has written several articles on BRMS for InfoWorld -- search the site for examples) has a blog hosted at: http://javarules.blogspot.com Confusingly, his blog is also called "javarules" - but imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? ;-) James has worked as an independent consultant and has experience of several BRMS products. He currently works for Fair Isaac. Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:17:21 -0800 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=182 Immenstaad (Germany), November 7, 2007 – Innovations Softwaretechnologie and Eclipse Foundation announce that Innovations will begin immediately to serve as an Add-in Provider to the open source community and has joined the foundation. Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:33:58 -0800 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=181 Nest version of TermWare rule engine and language is released. Among main changes are support of JSR 223, Java debug interface, new language constructs and other. Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:25:36 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=180 ILOG has launched the BRMS Resource Center to help companies evaluate business rules technology. You can download a 6 month trial version of JRules as well as read a variety of information on integration, methodology, case studies, architecture and performance. Visit the BRMS Resource Center at: http://www.ilog.com/brms/ In addition Daniel Selman has a new ILOG BRMS blog hosted at: http://blogs.ilog.com/brms/ Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:05:51 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=179 SAP has announced it will acquire rule engine technology vendor YasuTech and their QuickRules offering. For an Indian perspective, read: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/10/20/stories/2007102050660700.htm Press release: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQW04317102007-1.htm Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:58:58 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=178 OpenRules became the first BRMS vendor to offer an automatic rules compression tool. This month OpenRules announced a new component of its popular Open Source BRMS called RuleCompressor™. This tool employs integrated Machine Learning and Business Rules techniques to automatically compress complex classification rules. When supplied with an existing rule set and test data Rule Compressor™ may effectively minimize the number of rules and/or simplify their structure by automatically discovering new thresholds and eliminating non-essential attributes. Rules Compressor™ can also be used independently with other rule engines. Related links:RuleCompressor™ RuleLearner OpenRules, Inc. Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:56:50 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=177 YASU Technologies has now made public the Beta 2 version QuickRules.NET v3.1, its leading Business Rules Management System for the .NET Platform. The main highlights include the following:  Major Productivity Enhancements. Rule Development is now 200% Faster  Support for Writing Rules using .NET 2.0 Generics  Complete Support for .NET 2.0 and 3.0 Frameworks Useful Links QuickRules.NET 3.1 - What's New QuickRules.NET 3.1 - Feature Highlights QuickRules.NET 3.1 - Product Tour (Video with Audio) Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:42:27 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=176 This 2006 article from the Information Technology Support Center, sponsored by the US Department of Labor, just came to my attention. This paper presents the results of a study conducted by the Information Technology Support Center (ITSC) to determine the value and opportunity for state unemployment insurance (UI) agencies to use business rule development software effectively to accelerate their UI modernization programs and to take advantage of such technology to make UI modernization more effective and more likely to succeed. The paper details the results of an investigation of software vendors offering such software and how well the software has performed in UI modernization arenas. Vendor Survey Participants Corticon Fair Isaac Gensym ILOG InRule Technology Mindbox Pegasystems RuleBurst Sapiens Versata YASU Download the paper from: http://itsc.org/PDF/FY0608_2.pdf Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:20:59 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=175 JBoss Drools 4.0 has just been released :) We are really proud of what we have done here. JBoss Drools 4.0 can be summarised as: More expressiveness More powerful declarative keywords Hibernate ready, with 'from' keyword for evaluating external data Pluggable dialects, with new MVEL dialect New Rule Flow and Eclipse modeller Better Performance IDE Improvements Enterprise Ready with Web 2.0 Business Rules Management Studio. Debug points and guided editor should help reduce learning curves New Sequential Mode Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:05:41 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=174 OpenRules, Inc. announced a new major release, “OpenRules-4”. While OpenRules-3 has been praised by many real-world customers for its unique combination of power and simplicity, OpenRules-4 adds new advanced features requested "from the trenches". Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:48:32 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=173 http://markproctor.blogspot.com/2007/06/free-session-in-brain-of-mark-proctor.html Session Details are as follows: Talk: JBoss Rules Speaker:Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules Lead (blog) Date: Wednesday, 11th July 2007 Times: 18:30 - 20:30 Venue: Skills Matter 1 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0BE Google Map Registration: Register for this Free In-The-Brain Session on JBoss Rules here Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:47:07 -0700 http://javarules.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=172 TermWare 2.1.0 is released. This is JSR-94 compatible rule engine, based on 'rewriting rules with actions' paradigm. Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:24:44 -0700