Lone Star Software Symposium: Dallas

October 26 - 28, 2007 - Dallas, TX


Embassy Suites Park Central
13131 North Central Expressway
Dallas, TX   75243
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Drooling with Groovy and Rules

Rule based programming allows us to develop applications using declarative rules. These can simplify development in applications where such rules based knowledge is used for decision making.

In this presentation we will take a look at Drools and its evolution into JBoss Rules and how you can express rules including Groovy and other alternatives. We'll taken an example oriented approach to creating a sample application.


About Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. Venkat is also an adjunct faculty and teaches CS courses remotely at the University of Houston. He is author of ".NET Gotchas," coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning "Practices of an Agile Developer," author of "Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer" and "Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual Machine" (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

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