Drools Documentation

Drools Documentation The JBoss Drools team [http://www.drools.org/community/team.html] Drools Documentation by Version 6.3.0.CR2 ...................................................................................................................................... xiv I. Welcome ........................................................................................................................ 1 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................... 2 1.1. Introduction ................................................................................................ 2 1.2. Getting Involved .......................................................................................... 2 1.2.1. Sign up to jboss.org ......................................................................... 3 1.2.2. Sign the Contributor Agreement ........................................................ 3 1.2.3. Submitting issues via JIRA ............................................................... 4 1.2.4. Fork GitHub ..................................................................................... 5 1.2.5. Writing Tests ................................................................................... 5 1.2.6. Commit with Correct Conventions ..................................................... 7 1.2.7. Submit Pull Requests ....................................................................... 8 1.3. Installation and Setup (Core and IDE) ........................................................ 10 1.3.1. Installing and using ........................................................................ 10 1.3.2. Building from source ....................................................................... 20 1.3.3. Eclipse ........................................................................................... 21 2. Release Notes .................................................................................................... 28 2.1. What is New and Noteworthy in Drools 6.3.0 .............................................. 28 2.1.1. Real Time Validation and Verification for the Decision Tables ............ 28 2.1.2. Improved DRL Editor ...................................................................... 28 2.1.3. Browsing graphs of objects with OOPath ......................................... 29 2.2. New and Noteworthy in KIE Workbench 6.3.0 ............................................. 31 2.2.1. Generation of JPA enabled Data Models ......................................... 31 2.2.2. Data Set Authoring ......................................................................... 33 2.3. What is New and Noteworthy in Drools 6.2.0 .............................................. 34 2.3.1. Propagation modes ........................................................................ 34 2.4. New and Noteworthy in KIE Workbench 6.2.0 ............................................. 36 2.4.1. Download Repository or Part of the Repository as a ZIP ................... 36 2.4.2. Project Editor permissions .............................................................. 37 2.4.3. Unify validation style in Guided Decision Table Wizard. ..................... 38 2.4.4. Improved Wizards .......................................................................... 38 2.4.5. Consistent behaviour of XLS, Guided Decision Tables and Guided Templates ............................................................................................... 39 2.4.6. Improved Metadata Tab .................................................................. 40 2.4.7. Improved Data Objects Editor ......................................................... 43 2.4.8. Execution Server Management UI ................................................... 45 2.4.9. Social Activities .............................................................................. 46 2.4.10. Contributors Dashboard ................................................................ 48 2.4.11. Package selector .......................................................................... 49 2.4.12. Improved visual consistency .......................................................... 50 2.4.13. Guided Decision Tree Editor ......................................................... 52 2.4.14. Create Repository Wizard ............................................................. 53 2.4.15. Repository Structure Screen .......................................................... 54 2.5. New and Noteworthy in Integration 6.2.0 .................................................... 56 iii Drools Documentation 2.5.1. KIE Execution Server ..................................................................... 56 2.6. What is New and Noteworthy in Drools 6.1.0 .............................................. 58 2.6.1. JMX support for KieScanner ........................................................... 58 2.7. New and Noteworthy in KIE Workbench 6.1.0 ............................................. 58 2.7.1. Data Modeler - round trip and source code preservation .................... 58 2.7.2. Data Modeler - improved annotations .............................................. 58 2.7.3. Standardization of the display of tabular data ................................... 58 2.7.4. Generation of modify(x) {...} blocks ........................................... 59 2.8. New and Noteworthy in KIE API 6.0.0 ........................................................ 60 2.8.1. New KIE name ............................................................................... 60 2.8.2. Maven aligned projects and modules and Maven Deployment ............ 60 2.8.3. Configuration and convention based projects ................................... 61 2.8.4. KieBase Inclusion ........................................................................... 61 2.8.5. KieModules, KieContainer and KIE-CI .............................................. 62 2.8.6. KieScanner .................................................................................... 62 2.8.7. Hierarchical ClassLoader ................................................................ 63 2.8.8. Legacy API Adapter ....................................................................... 63 2.8.9. KIE Documentation ........................................................................ 63 2.9. What is New and Noteworthy in Drools 6.0.0 .............................................. 64 2.9.1. PHREAK - Lazy rule matching algorithm .......................................... 64 2.9.2. Automatically firing timed rule in passive mode ................................. 64 2.9.3. Expression Timers .......................................................................... 65 2.9.4. RuleFlowGroups and AgendaGroups are merged ............................. 66 2.10. New and Noteworthy in KIE Workbench 6.0.0 ........................................... 66 2.11. New and Noteworthy in Integration 6.0.0 .................................................. 69 2.11.1. CDI .............................................................................................. 69 2.11.2. Spring .......................................................................................... 70 2.11.3. Aries Blueprints ............................................................................ 70 2.11.4. OSGi Ready ................................................................................ 70 3. Compatibility matrix ........................................................................................... 71 II. KIE ............................................................................................................................. 72 4. KIE ..................................................................................................................... 73 4.1. Overview .................................................................................................. 73 4.1.1. Anatomy of Projects ....................................................................... 73 4.1.2. Lifecycles ....................................................................................... 74 4.2. Build, Deploy, Utilize and Run ................................................................... 75 4.2.1. Introduction .................................................................................... 75 4.2.2. Building ......................................................................................... 78 4.2.3. Deploying ...................................................................................... 95 4.2.4. Running ....................................................................................... 100 4.2.5. Installation and Deployment Cheat Sheets ..................................... 115 4.2.6. Build, Deploy and Utilize Examples ................................................ 116 4.3. Security .................................................................................................. 127 4.3.1. Security Manager ......................................................................... 127 iv Drools Documentation III. Drools Runtime and Language .................................................................................. 130 5. Hybrid Reasoning ............................................................................................ 131 5.1. Artificial Intelligence ................................................................................. 131 5.1.1. A Little History ............................................................................. 131 5.1.2.

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