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