Last week I gave a talk about Activiti and Drools in Action at the WJAX in Munic, Germany, which is one of the largest and most important Java conferences in Germany. I gave a demo using the latest camunda fox server, basically a JBoss AS 7 with Activiti integrated. More than 80 people in a totally crowded room showed how hot this topic must be The whole stack allowed me to create an application using the Activiti Process Engine, JSF, CDI, JPA, EJB and the Drools Rule Engine in the train ride from Berlin to Munic, the required code is really pretty small. Today I uploaded a cast of the whole talk (but in German) and want to provide the link to the sources.

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We lately did quite some projects with the Business Rules Engine JBoss Drools for our customers. And as I noted in various talks or posts already, I really like Drools as a Rule Engine. For Guvnor as the “BRMS” System covering use cases as rules editing, versioning, release management, testing, searching and so on I am not that convinced of the current solution, basically due to some technical problems and the overall user experience of the UI. Read on..

Am 04. Februar 2008 habe ich in Berlin bei der Java User Group Berlin Brandenburg (JUG-BB) einen Vortrag über BPM und Business Rules mit den Open Source Frameworks JBoss jBPM und JBoss Drools gehalten.

Trotz dem ich gesundheitlich etwas angeschlagen war, haben wir das Ganze noch ganz gut geschaukelt. Mit ca. 60 Leuten war die Kapazität des Vortragsraumes auch ausgelastet, Gerüchten zufolge wären auch gerne noch mehr gekommen.

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