The WSO2 Business Rules Server (BRS) 2.2.0

WSO2 Business Rules Server (WSO2 BRS) is to be your Business Rule Management System (BRMS). Our ultimate goal is to provide you with the suitable capability of codifying, executing, and maintaining your organization's decisions.

BRS 2.2.0 supports exposing your organization' decisions as Secure Web services. The integration with our Enterprise Service Bus supports incorporating your dynamic integration decisions to the your enterprise' applications integration solution.

WSO2 BRS 2.2.0 is developed on top of the revolutionary Carbon platform , and is based on the OSGi framework to achieve the better modularity for your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This also contains a lots of new features and many other optional components to customize the behavior of the server. Further, if you do not want any of the built in features, you can uninstall those features without any trouble. In other words, BRS can be customized to your SOA needs.

Key Features of WSO2 BRS 2.2.0

Expose Business rules as a web Service
Drools based back end runtime
Management User Interface for creating, deploying, monitoring, and testing rule services
JSR 94 Compliant
Based on carbon platform it provides all the QOS features such as Security, Reliable Messaging, caching etc ...

The WSO2 Business Rules Server (BRS) 2.2.0-RC2

WSO2 Business Rules Server (WSO2 BRS) is to be your Business Rule Management System (BRMS). Our ultimate goal is to provide you with the suitable capability of codifying, executing, and maintaining your organization's decisions.

BRS 2.2.0 supports exposing your organization' decisions as Secure Web services. The integration with our Enterprise Service Bus supports incorporating your dynamic integration decisions to the your enterprise' applications integration solution.

WSO2 BRS 2.2.0 is developed on top of the revolutionary Carbon platform , and is based on the OSGi framework to achieve the better modularity for your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This also contains a lots of new features and many other optional components to customize the behavior of the server. Further, if you do not want any of the built in features, you can uninstall those features without any trouble. In other words, BRS can be customized to your SOA needs.

Key Features of WSO2 BRS 2.2.0

Expose Business rules as a web Service
Drools based back end runtime
Management User Interface for creating, deploying, monitoring, and testing rule services
JSR 94 Compliant
Based on carbon platform it provides all the QOS features such as Security, Reliable Messaging, caching etc ...

WSO2 Business Rule Server (WSO2 BRS) 2.2.0 - Beta2 Released!

The WSO2 BPS/BRS team is pleased to announce the Beta2 release of WSO2 BRS v2.2.0.

The WSO2 Business Rules Server brings the agility of business rules to your SOA toolkit. Based on a solid platform for hosting business rules, our Business Rules Server excels at extending the capabilities of your SOA.
Allowing business rules to be encapsulated in a simpler, more direct dialect and language closer to business analysts, ensures that the technology directly meets the enterprise’s business needs.

Interested in playing with an early release? Download the latest beta2 release ! : WSO2 BRS 2.2.0-Beta2

Release Notes - WSO2 Business Rule Server - Version 2.2.0 Beta

Issues Fixed for this release

Improvements

• [BRS-130] - [Rule Serivice Deployment][Rule Wizard] rule service creation with inline rule script for decision tables
• [BRS-131] - [Rule Service Deployment] Provide support to create decision table based rule service using .csv files

Known Issues

Jira:issues:brs

How To Contribute

You can find more instructions on how to contribute on our documentation site.
If you have any suggestions or are interested in discussions, you can join the [email protected] or [email protected] mailing lists.

Reporting Problems

Issues can be reported using the BRS public JIRA available at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/BRS

Contact us

WSO2 developers can be contacted via the mailing list: Carbon developer mailing list

For details on subscriptions see http://wso2.org/mail

-- The WSO2 BPS/BRS Team --

WSO2 Business Rule Server (WSO2 BRS) 2.2.0 - Beta Released!

WSO2 BPS team is pleased to announce the release of WSO2 Business Rule Server 2.2.0 - Beta Release!

The WSO2 Business Rules Server brings the agility of business rules to your SOA toolkit. Based on a solid platform for hosting business rules, our Business Rules Server excels at extending the capabilities of your SOA.
Allowing business rules to be encapsulated in a simpler, more direct dialect and language closer to business analysts, ensures that the technology directly meets the enterprise’s business needs.

Interested in playing with an early release? Download the latest beta release!
wso2brs-2.2.0-Beta.zip

Release Notes - WSO2 Business Rule Server - Version 2.2.0 Beta

Issues Fixed for this release

Bugs

• BRS-101 - Cannot install BRS features on AppServer.
• BRS-106 - Added jars are not deleted when chosen create option again while executing the wizard
• BRS-107 - Crash when trying to edit a rule service - Intermitant
• BRS-115 - Exception throws when tenant login first time after creation
• BRS-122 - Verify product release security checklist
• BRS-126 - [BRS] BRS 2.2.0 - ALPHA goes OOM in clustered setup during load test

Improvement

• BRS-127 - [BRS] Create stateless knowledge session for stateless rule services

Known Issues

Jira:issues:brs

Features

Create Services Implemented with Rules

- Rule engine working memory can be associated with various lifetimes including request, session or global - Single rule set across all service operations allows working memory state sharing across business rule invocations - Extension context for selectively publishing events from any rule set to WSO2 Business Activity Monitor

Integration Ready Rule Services

- Support for standard, interoperable protocols including WS-*, REST and JSON - Services can be exposed over various transports including HTTP(S), JMS and SMTP - Secure rule services in multiple approaches including HTTP Basic Auth, WS-Security, OpenID and OAuth

Rule Repository for Management and Governance

- Central storage and management of rules (via WSO2 Governance Registry) - Lifecycle management, versioning and full governance (via WSO2 Governance Registry) - Integrate user role into rule execution and/or rule selection

Pluggable Rule Engine Support

- Any JSR 94 API compliant rule engine - Built in support for Drools rule engine - Support for both decision tables and rule sets

Rule Execution Capability for Workflow Systems

- Any workflow system can invoke rule services as an activity via HTTP, REST or Web services - WSO2 Business Process Server extension activity for embedded rule execution in a workflow

Rule Execution Capability for WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus

- Rule mediator for message, service or API mediation - Content based decision making - Rule based content editing - SLA management

High Performance, High Availability, Scalability & Stability

- Supports highly available deployment - Horizontal scaling via clustering with stateless server architecture for session scoped rule services - Long term execution stability with low resource utilization

Lightweight, Developer Friendly and Easy to Deploy

- Use of widely used Drools rule language for developer familiarity - Easy to debug services with tools for message tracing and interactive testing with TryIt capabilities - Automatic generation of WSDLs for services and service stubs - Server customization via feature provisioning of any WSO2 middleware capability - Choice of deployment to on-premise servers, private cloud, or managed cloud - Integrated with SVN, Maven, Ant and other standard tools for development & deployment - Integrated to WSO2 Developer Studio, Eclipse-based IDE for all WSO2 products

Manage & Monitor

- Comprehensive management & monitoring Web console with enterprise-level security - Built-in collection and monitoring of standard access and performance statistics - JMX MBeans for key metrics monitoring and management - Integrates with WSO2 Business Activity Monitor for operational audit and KPI monitoring and management - Flexible logging support with integration to enterprise logging systems - Centralized configuration management across different environments with lifecycles and versioning via integration to WSO2 Governance Registry

How To Contribute

You can find more instructions on how to contribute on our documentation site.
If you have any suggestions or are interested in discussions, you can join the [email protected] or [email protected] mailing lists.

Reporting Problems

Issues can be reported using the BRS public JIRA available at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/BRS

Contact us

WSO2 developers can be contacted via the mailing list: Carbon developer mailing list

For details on subscriptions see http://wso2.org/mail

-- The WSO2 BPS Team --