Overview

Drools is a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) solution. It provides a core Business Rules Engine (BRE), a web authoring and rules management application (Drools Workbench), full runtime support for Decision Model and Notation (DMN) models at Conformance level 3 and an Eclipse IDE plugin for core development.

Drools is open source software, released under the Apache Software License. It is written in 100% pure Java™, runs on any JVM and is available in the Maven Central repository too.

More information can be found on the following links:

• Drools Workbench (web UI for authoring and management)
• Drools Expert (business rules engine)
• Drools Fusion (complex event processing features)
• jBPM (process/workflow integration for rule orchestration/flow)
• OptaPlanner (automated planning)

These projects have community releases from JBoss.org that come without support. Community releases focus on fast paced innovation to give you the latest and greatest, with releases every few months that include both features and fixes. Red Hat JBoss BRMS is our enterprise product for mission critical releases, with a multi year commitment for backport of fixes, based off a sanitised community release of Drools. A range of support packages are available including up to mission critical 24/7, as well as training and consultancy via our Global Professional Services unit. Check Red Hat Process Automation Manager for more details.

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