Java rules Engine Java Rule Engine builds the development environment

Drools Official website: http://www.jboss.org/drools

Drools and JBPM consist out of several projects: (Drools package provides several parts of the functionality)

Drools Guvnor (Business Rules manager) ( rule set manager)

Drools Expert ( Rule engine )

JBPM 5 (Process/workflow) ( workflow)
Drools Fusion (Event processing/temporal reasoning) ( rule set engine search and planning)

Drools Planner (Automated planning) ( decision table)

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Eclipse3.5 Installing the Drools5.2.0.final plugin

to drools download page (now http://www.jboss.org/drools/downloads.html)

-Download and unzip the drools:Drools-distribution-5.2.0.final.zip (unzip the catalogue at random)

-Download and unzip the plugin:droolsjbpm-tools-distribution-5.2.0.final.zip (unzip the directory arbitrarily)

-Open Eclipse.

-click "Help"-"Install new software ..."

-click "Add ..."

-Enter "Droolslocaluupdatesite" in name (the name is optional)

-click on "Local ..." and select ".../binaries/org.drools.updatesite" (This directory is in the plugin just unzipped)

-Click OK

-Select So plugin.

-Here is the click Next,finish

After the plug-in is installed, you need to add the drools environment in eclipse:

-click "Windows"-"preferencess"

-Select "Drools"-"Installed Drools runtimes" in the tree menu of the window

-In the empty Drools runtime list on the right, click "Add"

-In the pop-up window, name input droolsruntime (a random name), select ".../drools-distribution-5.2.0.final\" in path. Drools-distribution-5.2.0.final\binaries " (this directory is in the drools just unzipped),

-click "OK"

-click "OK"

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Java Rule Engine Java Rule Engine to build the development environment