Daniel Selman is an architect and ILOG JRules Rule Studio team lead. Rule Studio is a rule development environment for technical users and is based on the Eclipse platform. Daniel has worked as an architect and product manager on a variety of Java/C/C++ and J2EE applications. Daniel loves to talk about business rules, rugby, farming, sustainable development and programming, ideally over a good glass of wine or beer.
Our indefatigable documentation team just published a 52 page documentation addendum for JRules 6.x, covering all things related to synchronizing Rule Studio for Java and Rule Team Server.
We received feedback from a number of customers stating that…
An interesting press release this morning from Celent:
A new Celent report, Business Rules and Underwriting Automation at Travelers, presents a case study of how an insurance company achieved significant success in automating underwriting and pricing of several lines sold to…
A large bank in Europe is evaluating deploying JRules on the mainframe and Albin was able to quickly deploy the Rule Execution Server to WebSphere and DB2 running on z/OS so we could gather memory consumption statistics to help inform their decision.
… Invoking the engine within a JVM (no WebSphere), Rule Execution Server on WAS using J2SE provider, Rule Execution Server on WAS using POJO provider.
I will be speaking at a new technical rules conference in Dallas October 22-24. The conference is unique in that it aims to assemble some of the leading implementors of rule engine technology to discuss the state-of-the-art, as well as…
Recently we’ve had a few questions about JRules support for Apple Mac OS X. The official line is that this is an unsupported platform, however with a few tweaks you can install and run the Linux version of JRules 6.7.1…
Last night I watched “Unforgiven” so I thought I’d continue the spaghetti Western theme today; looking at the challenge of developing, running and interpreting benchmarks for Business Rule Management Systems. I recently read the excellent article “Behind the benchmarks: SPEC, GFLOPS,…
June 25th will mark the release of Eclipse “Ganymede”, aka Eclipse 3.4. To celebrate the Eclipse Foundation is organizing all sorts of informational and fun activities. For example, there is a spoof movie poster contest running. Here is my favourite so far:
We…
I recently had the opportunity to take a look at the newest member of our BRMS family, ILOG Rules for COBOL. We’ve supported JRules running on zSeries (both zOS and zLinux) for a few years now, but there is still…
A preview of the Static Analysis view that we are working on for JRules 7.
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…