Drools 6: News & Noteworthy

The next upcoming release of Drools, the 6th, will represent the biggest change since the inception of the project. In fact we decided to drop the backward compatibility with the older releases to accommodate these new features, but in change we have lots to offer like the possibility to package and manage a drools project like a normal maven project and a CDI integration allowing to inject drools sessions and knowledge bases in your classes. Also the Drools Rule Language will have small (like the possibility to define more than a consequence for a given rule) and big (like a better support for functional programming) changes that in general will make the language more powerful and expressive. The purpose of this talk is to give an early preview of these news showing their usage with practical examples.