JBoss Drools project features a BRMS called
Guvnor. Drools Guvnor features a rich web based GUI, including editors and other stuff. Sometimes you cannot really use Guvnor in your deployment due to some bureaucratic issues: for instance, all the web UIs in our organization are
Flex-based and Guvnor's UI is
GWT-based (
there might be other reasons for sure). So you want to use Drools but your obliged to use the tools/frameworks that are approved in your organization.
There are some issues that you have to pay attention to when starting to use Drools:
- How to store the rules?
- How to version the rules?
- What will be your deployment scheme?
- Who will manage the rules?
- Can the domain experts understand how the rule editors work?
- etc
In this post I'd like to cover how the rules are stored with
drools-repository module of JBoss Drools.
