Once you become familiar with the topics discussed in my previous two posts:
You can start playing more and more with the Rule Engine. One of the things that you will notice during your first steps is the behavior mismatch between a Rule Engine and Process Engine. This is the main topic of this short post.
I’m back! In my previous post I’ve introduced a couple of patterns about how to mix processes and rules and viceversa. This post, before jumping into more advanced topics which requires to know how the Rule Engine works, will explain with some examples how we can interact with the Rule Engine using stateless sessions . This examples can be used to compare how most of the BPMS out there used to work with Rule Engines. At the end of the post you can find an example about how to solve the same scenario presented in the example just using Rules.
One of the things that differentiate jBPM5 from other BPMS is the fact that it runs on top of the Drools Rule engine. During a series of post I will be trying to share some of the advantages of this approach. Because this topic is heavily discussed inside Chapter 9 of the jBPM5 Developer Guide which will be published soon, I will try to use this post to gather feedback about what people expect or know about these features inside jBPM5 and Drools. Continue reading
