Some more interesting sessions at RulesFest…
- Hal Hildebrand from Salesforce.com presented on “building a distributed rule engine”, adding JESS onto Oracle Coherence. Hal found that other (presumably research) distributed rule engines had reinvented their own “distributed systems” whereas he re-used an existing one (the Tangosol nee Oracle Coherance infrastructure). Amongst other improvements, Hal wants to translate state diagrams into rules in a future version; the system isn’t yet used in production though. [Disclosure: TIBCO BusinessEvents 2.X-4.X also runs as a distributed rule engine under an extended Coherance infrastructure, and also has built-in UML State Model support].
- Jerome Boyer from IBM presented on his agile rule development methodology (ABRDM), an open source Eclipse-based methodology tool being extended to support (BPM) process development and possibly (in future) CEP. This would have been an excellent discussion for the 2010 EPTS Symposium!
- Edson Tirelli from JBoss presented a useful “Introduction to CEP”, containing an as yet unpublished version of the CEP Market diagram… [Reminder to self – will post this up on the blog in a few weeks or on request].
- Andrew Waterman presented on “Capturing Social Rules”, and his use of the OMG PRR rule modelling standard. Good to see this standard being exercised…
- The end-session panel included a question on whether / when TIBCO BusinessEvents (and other rule engines) will support the full enterprise hardware ecosystem such as smartphones. Another interesting question was on the relevance and importance of intelligent agents in rule automation.
