Drools Cookbook

Drools Developer's Cookbook

Drools Developer's Cookbook
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Credits
Author Lucas Amador Reviewers Kristy Sanders Umamaheswaran T.G Edson Tirelli Acquisition Editor Sarah Cullington Development Editor Hithesh Uchil Technical Editor Mehreen Shaikh Copy Editor Neha Shetty Project Coordinator Joel Goveya Proofreader Chris Smith Indexer Hemangini Bari Graphics Manu Joseph

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About the Author
Lucas Amador is a software developer born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His open source interest started when he was young but he finally got completely involved in it in 2008 while working with a JBoss partner giving consultancy and developing software using the JBoss middleware platform for Telco, some financial companies, and some othercompanies. At this time he obtained the Sun Java Developer and JBoss Advanced Developer certifications. He got involved in the JBoss Drools community through the Google Summer of Code 2009 program, implementing a refactoring module for the Eclipse Drools Plugin, and since then he is a jBPM5/Drools committer spending his spare time implementing new features and fixing bugs. He actually works as afreelance developer and is always looking for something interesting to work on. You can check his daily works and new projects on his personal blog lucazamador.wordpress.com and his Github account www.github.com/lucazamador. He can also be contacted at . I would like to dedicate this book to my family who always support me in any decision taken in my life, always cheering me up in my new adventures.About the Reviewers
Kristy Sanders has developed innovative IT solutions around the world for over 15 years. She is an expert, hands-on practitioner in Decision Management tools, approaches, practices, and technologies. Her work has helped companies increase the value of Decision Management investment and translate technological capabilities into measurable business results. Umamaheswaran T.G is a SUN-certified Java professional with more than nine years of experience in enterprise-level implementation of the Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC), including business analysis, functional and technical design, development, and support. He has also worked as a Consultant with industry leaders, such as Wells Fargo, USA; Citibank Japan, Bank of America, Fidelity Information Systems, andKaiser Permanente across various business operations. He is also involved in design and development of various modules using Java, J2EE, Spring Web Services, Struts, dom4j, Drools Rule Engine, XML, XSD, Autosys, WebSphere, and Oracle. Edson Tirelli has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and has 12 years of experience in business...