Drools

Drools is a slim Business Rules Management System (BRMS) solution with different integrations and tools available. In the following short snippet I’d like to demonstrate how to integrate a simple rule engine into an application using this library. Figure 1. Drools Example running in Eclipse IDE Dependencies Using Gradle here we only need to add one dependency for drools-compiler to our project’s build.gradle. In addition, we’re adding a task to execute our application. ...

Having tried a bunch of workflow engines and business processing management platforms I now have given the Activiti framework a try. I immediately liked the good test support using annotations and jUnit test rules, a straight API and the good Eclipse IDE integration as well as I liked the Activiti Explorer and the Activiti REST Application and the feeling to achieve quick results with less effort when using this framework. ...