JMS – a new fact provider for Drools via Pipeline

The Drools Pipeline is a great tool that allows to put facts into the rule engine from the outside world. Currently supported stores are JMS queues and topics and text files. The format of the payload is almost free to choose, since out of the box you can use JAXB, XStream and the powerful Smooks transformer to convert your data into facts, which the rule engine is able to consume.
This article explains how to use Pipelines.

Tuning Guvnor

Guvnor is the business rules management system in Drools 5. When you deploy it out of the box, you get an unsecured web application that stores data in Jackrabbit’s embedded Derby database.
This article explains how to tune Guvnor deployed on JBoss Application Server 4.2.3. It's available in English and German.