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Also known as jboss drools

Drools is a business rule management system (BRMS) with a forward and backward chaining inference-based rules engine, more correctly known as a production rule system, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm.

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An open source rule engine, DMN engine and complex event processing (CEP) engine for Java™ and the JVM Platform. Drools is a business rule management system with a forward-chaining and backward-chaining inference based rules engine, allowing fast and reliable evaluation of business rules and complex event processing. A rule engine is also a fundamental building block to create an expert system which, in artificial intelligence, is a computer system that emulates the decision-making ability of a human expert. Be sure to check out the Apache KIE project website and documentation! UML diagrams have been used for architectural and design documentation. Those diagrams are in ".puml" format and have been created using the PlantUML tool. Plugins exists to use it in different IDE: IDEA Eclipse VisualStudio

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www.drools.org
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10.1.999-20250608
source code repository URL
github.com/kiegroup/drools
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  • Drools in Apache Kie
  • Red Hat Decision Manager
  • Example
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  • References
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Drools is a business rule management system (BRMS) with a forward and backward chaining inference-based rules engine, more correctly known as a production rule system, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm.

Drools supports the Java Rules Engine API (Java Specification Request 94) standard for its business rule engine and enterprise framework for the construction, maintenance, and enforcement of business policies in an organization, application, or service.

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