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 Module 5: Drools BLiP
Architectural Overview
Drools5 Community Training
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 Module 5: Drools BLiP
Architectural Overview
Drools5 Community Training Course
by Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino and
Esteban Aliverti is licensed under a
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 Agenda

● Drools Overview
● Core Components
○ Drools Main Modules
● Possible Architectures
● Demos
 Drools Overview

● It was born as an Inference Engine

● More functionality was added on top of it
● A Platform was created to create applications
● The declarative approach provided helps us to share the
knowledge with non technical roles
● A Knowledge Driven Development Approach was proposed
to build applications on top of the platform
 The Drools Project

● Open Source
● Apache Licensed
● Free to use
● Innovative approach
● Community Support
 Drools Overview

● Drools Expert (Rule Engine)

● Drools Flow == jBPM5

● Drools Fusion

● Drools Guvnor
Drools Overview
 Drools Expert

● Drools Expert
○ Contains the Inference Engine
○ Pure Java
○ Provides a language to write declarative rules
○ Provides the APIs to interact with it
○ Environmental Agnostic (JSE, JEE, Spring)
○ Lightweight
 jBPM5 == Drools Flow

● jBPM5 == Drools Flow

○ Provides Business Process Management features
○ Runs on top of the Rule Engine
○ Enable us with dynamic and declarative capabilities to
create smarter processes
 Drools Fusion

● Drools Fusion
○ Enables the notion of time to the Rule Engine
○ Let us define our meaningful events in our domain
○ Defines 13 temporal operators to correlate and aggregate
stream of events
○ It operates in near real-time allowing us to react on
immediately to an ongoing situation
○ Takes advantage of the inference capabilities of the Rule
Engine
 Drools Guvnor

● Drools Guvnor
○ Its a centralized Knowledge Repository
○ Allow us to store and manage our business knowledge
○ Tag, Categorize and Version our knowledge assets
○ Provides some UIs to manage our knowledge assets
 Drools Artifacts

● Drools Artifacts
○ Lightweight Java Library
○ Gives us the flexibility to use it no matter the
environment
○ Allows us to define the best architecture for each specific
situation
 Drools Architectural Goals

● Drools was designed and conceived for:

○ Express business knowledge declaratively
○ Integrate different solutions/applications using a
declarative approach
○ To provide an unified and knowledge driven
development approach
○ To provide a link of communication between business
people and technical people
○ To be non-intrusive
 Alternative Architectures

● Drools Alternative Architectures

○ Embedded
○ As a Service
 Embedded

● Drools Embedded Architecture

 Embedded -> Centralized Knowledge

● Drools Embedded Architecture, centralized Knowledge

 As A Service (Centralized)

● Drools As A Service (Centralized) Architecture

 As A Service (Centralized)

● Drools As A Service (Centralized) Architecture

 Stateful vs Stateless Services

● Stateful vs Stateless Services

○ You need to define the nature of your problems
○ Stateless situations are easy to manage
■ Replicate services in different nodes becomes trivial
■ Caches for data access can be used
○ Stateful situations give us more rich set of features
■ Require session data replication in different nodes
■ We need to analyze what happen if a session breaks
and how it affects to the overall application
 Stateful Knowledge Services

● Stateful Knowledge Services

○ Enable us to have long running execution
○ We will be able to maintain contextual information to
work on
○ The inference process will much more richer
○ Business Processes can run without any problem
○ Events require a stateful environment to work
○ We need to use some kind of persistence mechanism if
we want to have fault tolerance
 Stateful Knowledge Services with Events

● Stateful Knowledge Services with Events

 Demos

● Demos
○ Emergency Service Application
○ Dynamic Content Selection PoC
 Emergency Service Application

● Emergency Service Application

○ Simulate a real world situation
○ Demonstrate the advantages of using business processes,
business rules and event processing all together
○ Download and Play:
■ https://github.com/Salaboy/emergency-service-
drools-app
Emergency Service Application
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Dynamic Content Selection Application

○ Proof of Concept to show Drools features
○ Demonstrate the information that we can capture from
the user interaction with different visual components
○ Demonstrate how we can create a simple to enable non
technical roles to define/validate what the application
needs to do in different situations
○ Demonstrate how we can react on different identified
situations
○ Download and Test:
■ https://github.com/Salaboy/smart-content-selection
Dynamic Content Selection
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Dynamic Content Selection Application

○ Drools will keep track of the status of our visual
components for each use
○ Drools will be listening events that will be generated
during the user interaction
○ Temporal rules will be defined to correlate the streams of
events generated by one or multiple users
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Events Correlation for a Single User

○ Behavioral Event Stream
■ Navigation Events
■ Browsing Events
■ Component Interaction Events
○ Shopping Cart Event Stream
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Events Correlation for a Multiple Users

○ Trends Analysis
■ More than X users selecting interacting with a
Product in the last 2 minutes
■ More than X users with similar products in their
shopping carts
■ More than X searches for a specific topic
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Behavioral Event Stream

○ Page Navigation Events
■ Links Clicks, Search Events
○ Browsing Information Events
■ Analyzing a component information (Focus,
Scrolling, Resizing, etc)
■ Multi Focus Analysis (selection patterns)
○ Component Interaction Events
■ Changing the component state (submitting a form,
select a value that changes the state of the
component)
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Shopping Cart Event Stream

○ Add Product To Cart
○ Remove Product From Cart
○ Checkout Products
○ Empty Cart
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Use Cases for Single User

○ Single Focus Interest Period
■ Offer Discount
○ Multi Focus / Pattern Selection
■ Related Product Suggestion
○ Abandoned Shopping Cart
■ Warning
○ Checkout Shopping Cart Quickly
■ Related Product Offer
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Single Focus Interest Period

○ Offer Discount
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Multi Focus / Pattern Selection

○ Related Product Suggestion
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Abandoned Shopping Cart

○ Warning
 Dynamic Content Selection

● Checkout Shopping Cart Quickly

○ 10% Discount Voucher for future shops
 Related Links

● You can find more information, examples, tutorials and

more in:
○ Salaboy Blog
■ http://salaboy.wordpress.com
○ Esteban Blog
■ http://ilesteban.wordpress.com
○ Plug Tree Blog
■ http://www.plugtree.com
Questions?
Enjoy! Questions and Feedback are
always appreciated!
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