DRools BRMS

..Business Rule Management System

JBoss DRools has launched a new 4.0.1 BRMS in the latest release.. this is a web based admin console which can be used to author/edit/deploy/manage business rules and as it is a plain war file, it can be deployed on any application server..

From the deployment perspective, the good thing is that you can make use of Rule Agent to automatically checks and deploy the rule if there is any change.. Rule Agent basically talks to BRMS with the help of a properties file and keep polling for the change in the business rule, based on the time defined in the properties file..

From the Authoring perspective, a Rule/DSL/Function/Rule Flow.. everything can be created and managed using this web based console.. So the business guy doesn't actually need to work on eclipse, once the rules are setup in BRMS.. the only thing which I found missing was, I was not able to find a way to import a DRools Project created from one tool (e.g. rule studio.. i.e. eclipse) to BRMS.. or vice versa..

For more information.. check here..