Java Mug July Meeting

It's been a little while since I've blogged but here I am. I attended the July JavaMug.org meeting to listen about the Business Rules talk by Lawrence Terrill. I was expecting the same thing as I attended at the Java No Fluff Just Stuff conference on Drools. Yes, it covered the same basic information but the javaMug talk explained what Business Rules was and how to use them much better (Sorry Brian). I can really see where this could come in handy on a couple of projects that I have encountered. It would have make the solutions much easier to maintain. For example one of the projects that I worked on uses the same type of rules execution system. However, we designed everything in the database using PL/SQL. I think that we could have run the same process in Java using a rule processor like Drools and it would have cut months off of the project.