Snippet: Integrating the Drools Business Rules Management System in 5 Minutes

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0200

Drools is a slim Business Rules Management System (BRMS) solution with different integrations and tools available.

In the following short snippet I’d like to demonstrate how to integrate a simple rule engine into an application using this library.

Figure 1. Drools Example running in Eclipse IDE

Dependencies

Using Gradle here we only need to add one dependency for drools-compiler to our project’s build.gradle. In addition, we’re adding a task to execute our application.

Business Process Modeling with Activiti and BPMN 2.0

Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0200

Having tried a bunch of workflow engines and business processing management platforms I now have given the Activiti framework a try.

I immediately liked the good test support using annotations and jUnit test rules, a straight API and the good Eclipse IDE integration as well as I liked the Activiti Explorer and the Activiti REST Application and the feeling to achieve quick results with less effort when using this framework.

Activiti on Micha Kops' Tech Notes

Snippet: Integrating the Drools Business Rules Management System in 5 Minutes

Dependencies

Business Process Modeling with Activiti and BPMN 2.0