Day: 12 November 2011

UPDATE: Version 2.2.0, JavaScript (Nashorn) rules in the JVM - see here. UPDATE: Version 2.1.0, Java 8, Maven, GitHub - see here. UPDATE: Version 2.0 of the library now exists which supports Scala. It is a breaking change in that "Action" instances as shown below are now "AbstractAction", and the "Action" class is only supported in Scala, where functions can be passed to the action constructor instead of having to override the AbstractAction. Scala collections are also supported in the engine. I have the requirement to use a rule engine. I want something light weight and fairly simple, yet powerful. While there are products out there which are super good, I don't want something with the big learning overhead. And, I fancied writing my own! Here are my few basic requirements: Use some kind of expression language to write the rules, It should be possible to store rules in a database, Rules need a priority, so that only the best can be fired, It should also be possible to fire all matching rules, Rules should evaluate against one input which can be an object like a tree, containing all the information which rules need to evaluate against Predefined actions which are programmed in the system should be executed when certains rules fire. So to help clarify those requirements, imagine the following examples: 1) In some forum system, the administrator needs to be able to configure when emails are sent. Here, I would write some rules like "when the config flag…

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