Just forwarding this to the old list for folks who haven't migrated to
the new list.
-bob
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: bob mcwhirter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:01:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Update
Howdy folks--
Saw lots of traffic on the lists during this past week, whilst I was
disconnected at the seaside.
Just wanted to toss an update.
1) No, I'm not ignoring y'all. Just wan't online. Back now.
2) I'm working on a new drools guide. So far, about 30 pages. Hopefully
it'll answer most of your questions.
3) Seems that I've got a Rete-enabled co-conspirator now, who's also
working on a .NET port of drools. Hopefully the two of us can get
the Rete-OO algorithm fairly well stablized and more formally correct.
4) Please please please, if you experience any difficulty with drools,
go straight to http://jira.werken.com/ and file an issue. Or, file
an improvement-request. Jira runs my life. If it's not in jira,
then it doesn't exist. (Though, still send mail to the lists also,
so we can discuss.)
5) If it has 'sourceforge' in the name, it's deprecated. Do not use it.
This include the sourceforge CVS, maillists, bug-trackers, distributions,
etc.
6) The official home of drools, http://drools.org/ is the canoncial source
for all current drools information, such as CVS, maillists, bug-trackers,
distributions, etc.
7) RuleML does not (currently) aim to solve the Event-Condition-Action types
of rule languages. They -have- left room for it though. RuleML 0.8
does not suit our needs. Anyone want to take a stab at representing
drools in the RuleML 0.9 (or wherever they are heading) ECA types of
rules?
8) Anyone using drools, or wanting to use drools, for inferencing? I
think the RDF module, doing DAML+OIL, or wahtnot, is an inference
use-case, instead of an ECA. This may inspire some renaming/abstracting
of the core Rete-OO algorithm in order to support Inference and ECA
models. This may also require massive renaming/re-arranging to keep
the codebase coherent.
9) Remember, I'm hanging out on irc.werken.com #drools channel.
Come chat.
10) Is drools potentially important to your company? Do you have some
priority issues/features/changes that I haven't gotten around to
doing? Want help integrating drools into your environment? Really
wish there was more/different/better documentation? If so, I'm
available for consulting, development, training, etc. I have no
'real' Day Job now, and I'm trying to support my family (2 other
humans and 6 animals) through contracting, consulting, and friendly
companies sponsoring my hopefully useful open-source projects.
So, talk to your management if you want to see drools thrive in the
long run.
11) Some of y'all may be interested in werkflow http://werkflow.werken.com/
which will be a BPML-compliant workflow engine. I'm looking for some
good Swing hackers to help work on a workflow studio.
So far, thanks goes to Zenplex for the initial sponsorship of the werkflow
project, during the research and first round of design phases.
-bob
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Bob McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Werken Company http://werken.com/
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