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.
Understanding the Business Object Model (or BOM as it is affectionately known) is one of the keys to using JRules effectively. In this entry I hope to lay some groundwork for subsequent more in-depth entries on the Vocabulary, Executable Object Models and…
You may have noticed that the BRMS Resource has had a makeover recently, expanding it to cover JRules, Rules for .NET and Rules for COBOL. 6 month trial versions of both JRules and Rules for .NET are now available and the…
Albin sent me some more benchmark results; an update to the results I published a couple of weeks ago. The initial results were intriguing because of the low heap usage on IBM z/OS, while we only ran tests with the…
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…