New Change-Set Editor in Guvnor 5.4

By default, Guvnor provides a unique Change-Set per package containing the package binary or the drl source. The main problem with this is when you want to use just a sub-set of assets of a package (or even from different packages) in your application.
The only solution to this problem was to create the change-sets files in your applications pointing to individual assets in Guvnor using its REST interface. One drawback of this solution is that change-set management is outside the scope of Guvnor, so you don’t have a centralized place to manage them, version them, etc.
was working in a new Change-Set editor where you can define your own change-sets inside Guvnor in any way you want. You can have a combination of different assets and packages, or even different snapshots of a package in a change-set. You can have all the change-sets per package you need, so if different applications are using the same package in different ways (different assets or assets’ versions of a same package) you can make use of this new feature of Guvnor.

This new editor will be available in Guvnor 5.4 

Emergency-Service Demo Application got the second place in RuleML

Salaboy and I presented emergency-service demo application during RuleML 2011 Demo Challenge and we got the second place! Not bad for our first participation in this excellent conference! I think this is a great opportunity to thank Plugtree for supporting this kind of initiatives and also thank to all the contributors too.

We will continue improving the demo to integrate it with more technologies and to add it more features. We are really looking forward to be in next year’s RuleML!

Emergency Service Demo Application

[UPDATED] Drools and jBPM5 Open Training @London – August 8th/9th

Do you live in Europe? You don’t have any plans for August 8th/9th? Do you want to learn or improve your Drools and/or jBPM5 skills? If your answer is yes, then start packing and meet us (http://plugtree.com) in London!

Emergency Service Installation Guide

This week Mauricio Salatino presented a Drools/jBPM Demo application in Boston JUDCon.

Salaboy and I have developed this application at Plugtree to prove and show a lot of conceptual and architectural concepts behind JBoss Drools and jBPM projects.
The application is about an emergency service call center. It uses jBPM for define and run the company’s processes and Drools Expert to execute part of the involved Business Logic. The Demo application also uses Drools Fusion to correlate events coming form real-time sensors (a Wiimote or the keyboard) .

jBPM5 Community Training – Module #5: Domain Specific Processes

Salaboy and I have released Module #5 of jBPM5 Community Training.

This module covers the use of domain specific logic inside your processes. BPMN2 standard specify a special Activity to perform this: Task. Using it we can interact with external systems to create complex processes for real life situations.

Drools Expert Community Training Course

Salaboy and I are going to start publishing some of the material we used to use during Drools’ consultancy and training courses in the last year and a half. This is another initiative from PlugTree to promote and support open source projects.
All the material was created under the sponsorship of PlugTree and if you want us to give you and your company some on site workshops we will be glad to help you.

All the material provided here is under the Creative Commons License.
Our aim is to lower Drools’ entrance barrier and to promote its adoption as well!. Feel free to join us in this journey, we will be waiting feedback, questions and criticisms!

Spring Context Editor in Guvnor

Nicolas and Leandro made their first big contribution to Drools’ Guvnor. Congrats!
They have created a Spring Context Editor for Guvnor.
This feature allows you to:

• Create and Edit Spring Context Files inside Guvnor.
• Define Drools’ specific tags using a palette.
• Customize the elements in the palette to allow custom tags.
• Validate Spring Context xml.
• Expose Spring Context xmls through independent URLs.

This feature will be available in Drools 5.2.0M1. If you want to get more information, please read Nicola’s post.

Guvnor: Embed Asset’s Editor in your application.

Until now, if you wanted to create or edit rule assets in Drools you needed to enter Guvnor and work inside it. When Drools 5.2 sees the light of the day, there will be a new way: to embed Guvnor’s editors in your applications.

Guvnor Guided Editor: Custom Forms

These past days I was busy trying to implement the first version of Custom Forms for Guvnor’s Guided Editor. The idea is to enhance the way users author their rules, and in particular the restriction values they use in those rules.

Knowledge Agent: Added Support for DSL/DSLR

Finally, knowledge agent now supports DSL and DSLR files. A lot of people voted for this feature and it is finally done!.

What drool’s team needs now are users that test it. So, if you was one of the people who voted this issue or you was waiting it, you can start using it right now!