Authoring licensed .NET components is explained in several places over the web. But I was not able to find an article that would cover all the aspects of licensing in .NET. That's why I decided to write this article, and…

When you're building business rule applications, generic software-development methodologies just aren't enough. Agile Business Rule Development (ABRD) is a step-by-step process for developing business rule applications. An iterative methodology, ABRD employs agile software-development values. Rule development is organized as a series of cycles: discovery, analysis, authoring, validation, and deployment. Your team stays on schedule, delivering outstanding business rule applications. View this free one-hour webinar and learn how to:

• Leverage ABRD as first…

Since its inception in 1996, the JavaOne conference has been the focal point for showcasing the latest and greatest in Java development. ILOG has maintained a presence here for the last decade and this year the focus is on the JViews graphical component suite and its Rich Internet Application (RIA) abilities.

The Agile Business Rules Development methodology (ABRD) is the industry’s first free, vendor-neutral methodology delivered as an Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) OpenUp plug-in. ABRD provides a step-by-step process for developing business applications using technologies such as Business Rule Management System, BPM, BPEL. It details all the different activities to develop a rule set, from rule [...]

Nicolas Robbe, ILOG’s VP Product Marketing, does a great job of positioning ILOG and BRMS in the SOA space in a recently published video interview by SYS-CON TV from the SOA World West 2007 conference in San Francisco.

In general, ILOG Elixir gauges are displaying the current value of the gauge using a pointer pattern such as a needle or a marker. However in some cases you might want to display the current value using a different pattern than…

Memory leaks are often tricky to debug. In complex situations, advanced tools such as memory profilers are needed. But what about unit testing potential memory leaks? Ever wondered how to write, say, a JUnit test to check for memory leaks…

Welcome to a new comer in the already abundant blogosphere! We hope that, over the coming weeks and months, you will find here resources and ideas relevant to the implementation of your decisioning systems. Especially the ILOG-based ones! What is this blog about? Since ILOG’s inception in 1987, ILOG consultants have been involved in thousands of projects, [...]

We have just released version 8.1 patch 5 this week, which brings several noteworthy fixes and enhancements to the product. In particular:

• The specification for v1.1 of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) was finalized in January by OMG. As a…

This is the first of a series of posts in which we will walk through the UML Class Diagram sample of ILOG Diagrammer for .NET and explain various features, tips and tricks. The full UML Class Diagram Editor sample can be…

This post demonstrates how to make smooth transitions when a component view changes. I used this technique in the FactBook Demo and in Filemap (the AIR sample bundled with ILOG Elixir). This behaviour is implemented by the…

By Chris Berg, ILOG. The RES.NET team has done some great work with managed execution using WCF. While WCF offers most of the things we need for management (PerfMon, Service Layer, etc) it provides no visibility into the execution context of…

I've been enamored of the Eclipse Babel project for a while now so I'm very pleased to have a guest post on Babel by Benoit Nachawati. Benoit recently joined the JRules Rule Studio team. We are currently experimenting with using an internal Babel…

One comes from Sun, the other comes from IBM. One emulates native look & feel, the other uses the platform's widgets. For a long time, Swing and SWT developers saw these two toolkits as conflicting. Today, it is no longer…

The REMIX 08 event that took place in Paris on April 17th is the smaller and free edition of the MIX conference of Las Vegas. I attented the session named "Be creator of differences". It was the occasion for Microsoft to show how Silverlight and WPF can…