The Drools move to JBoss really is a good thing for everyone, with no down sides, key Drools developers were consulted throughout the process and all are more than happy with the situation.
Drools轉(zhuǎn)移到JBoss對每個人來說是一件好事情，沒有任何條件地，核心Drool開發(fā)人員考慮流程并且所有都更快樂的情形。
Rule engines are a specialised field, this is recognised by JBoss, and they trust us as the experts so we retain full control of development. I now get to work full time on Drools and we will hopefully be hiring another full time Drools developer. Bob McWhirter will continue to be involved in Drools, in an official JBoss capacity under a part time basis, as he continues to have other responsibilities. This will really accelerate the development process; which benefits everyone.
Rule引擎是一個專門的領域，這是被JBoss承認，并且它們信任我們作為專家，所以我們保留所有的開發(fā)控制。我現(xiàn)在開始在Drools上全職開發(fā)并且我們將希望雇傭其他全職的Drools開發(fā)者。Bob McWhirter將繼續(xù)保持在Drools,在一個官方的JBoss地位 under a part time basis,所以他繼續(xù)擁有其他責任。他們將真正的促進開發(fā)流程；我們收益于每個人。
Drools will continue to work as a standalone product, as part of the JBoss JEMS stack. We will of course work on great JBoss AS integration, especially with jBPM - however we will continue to fully support other AS. I want Drools to be used absolutely everywhere and will do everything I can to achieve this; I want NO artificial barriers to adoption - this has always been important to me and the main reason for not going LGPL. The license will stay BSDish, although we may change it to a standardised BSD/ASF/MIT license ?this has been planned for a while and will help to avoid confusion.
Drools將繼續(xù)作為一個獨立的項目工作，作為JBoss JEMS stack的一部分。我們將當然繼續(xù)工作JBoss AS 集成，特別是jBPM-然而我們將繼續(xù)全面支持其他AS.我想讓Drools用來被使用絕對每個地方并且做我可以去完成這個的任何事情；我想沒有假的障礙來采用--這總是對我來說很重要并且沒有進行LGPL的主要原因。這個license仍然逗留在BSDish,雖然我們可以修改他成一個標準化的BSD/ASF/MIT 的license?這已經(jīng)計劃了一段時間并且?guī)椭覀儽苊饣靵y。
Now that Drools is part of JBoss we can work on strong jBPM integration. We will bring standardised and easily understandable solutions to Workflow/BPM and Business Rules integration to the masses. I have already met with Tom Baeyens and we have identified some initial areas to work on for our first product release in Q1 2006. This is exciting work and will provide new ways of being able to build better affordable solutions without the high costs of existing specialised systems.
On a more personal note neither I nor Bob McWhirter are corporate type people, in fact Bob is famous for it!!! I would not have joined JBoss without full autonomy in an environment that would fully support my vision and the Drools community. We expected JBoss to take bully boy tactics in negotiations; however they were quite the contrary - this was unexpected and very refreshing and one of the key factors in my decision. Throughout the entire process they were surprisingly flexible; they listened to all our concerns and responded supportively - this was especially demonstrated in licensing talks, I hope the community takes note of that. While JBoss would have liked us to LGPL they respected our reasoning and never put any undue pressure on us. Since joining I have been continually asked about community feedback and response from all key JBoss people, Marc Fleury has taken a personal interest in this and repeatedly asked me if there is anything more he can do. This concern has been truly genuine and very much appreciated by me. Luckily the response has been great; we have had overwhelmingly positive feedback, especially once we clarified the licensing.
It would take 24+ months for a small company without an existing track record or infrastructure to try and build a strong brand around Drools, with all the support/consultancy/training/partner infrastructure that is needed for enterprise systems - this is a huge risk and one that I and Iterion were very much aware of. With JBoss we can achieve these in 6 months to a far greater effect, with negligible risk; as JBoss depends heavily on partners this will result in a larger ROI, due to scaling, with far less risk for them.
原文地址：http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/mproctor/archives/001192_drools_joins_jboss.html