New England Software Symposium
March 15 - 17, 2013
JBoss Drools: Rule Engine Development in Java
Sunday - Mar 17 9:00 AM EDT - Wakefield
This workshop is aimed at Java and Java EE developers looking to understand and apply a Rule Engine to solve problems typically and painfully addressed with traditional programming techniques.
In this workshop you will learn how to build lean applications using Test-Driven Development Techniques in conjunction with jBoss’ Drools Rule Engine to streamline, simplify and minimize the maintenance burden of a growing application in a rapidly changing business environment
Brian Sam-Bodden
Workshop Requirements
This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.
Eclipse IDE - Juno
The Drools IDE is part of the JBoss Tools family of plugins
Select “Help” » “Install New Software…”
Next to the “Work with:” field, select “Add…”
Enter: http://download.jboss.org/drools/release/5.4.0.Final/org.drools.updatesite/ with a name like “JBoss Tools”Code samples are hosted on Git. A Git Enable Eclipse installation is preferred but we can always use git from the command line
About Brian Sam-Bodden
Brian Sam-Bodden is a developer advocate at Redis Labs as well as an author, instructor, speaker, and hacker who has spent over twenty years crafting software systems. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics. Brian is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad and is the author of “Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapestry”, co-author of the “Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies” and a contributor to O'Reilly's “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know”.