22 May 2004 23:13
[drools-dev] Recent Drools updates
N. Alex Rupp <alex <at> nrfx.com>
2004-05-22 21:13:38 GMT
2004-05-22 21:13:38 GMT
In the last two months, several updates and improvements have been made to the Drools project. All of the updates are available in the project CVS. There is a new documentation site up in Confluence. We're going to be porting all of the information from the Drools project page to the confluence docs. (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/DROOLS/Home). Right now information about the new mailing lists, CVS and JIRA tasks for the beta-14 release have been collected there. The JSR-94 compatibility layer is passing all of its unit tests, and soon we're going to start testing it against the TCK. We should also be able to update the Miss Manners benchmark test. I'm considering having two Miss Manners benchmarks--one which uses the JSR94 API, and one which does not. We might also port the Miss Manners benchmark tests to the Groovy and Python semantics modules, so that we can compare their performance differences as well. We have a working top-level maven build. At the moment, it will run a multiproject:install on each of the project directories in turn. Some have asked for a goal building out a drools-full JAR, which would package together the drools-core, drools-smf, drools-io and drools-base modules. The semantics plugins and JSR94 module would need to be included. I'll get to work on that as soon as I can. At this time, we are very close to a beta-14 release. The remaining tasks for the beta-14 release are in the JIRA table at the bottom of the Drools confluence page. As we push for the beta-14 release, I hope to flesh out the project documentation and include much better DRL reference materials, and(Continue reading)
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