Drools & jBPM future roadmap presentation. Featuring the new web UI framework, UberFire.

1. Guvnor Now

2. Guvnor Now

3. Guvnor Now

4. Guvnor Now
● Fixed Layout
● Hard to build new UI layouts and components
● Lack of “role” oriented UIs
● JCR Backend
● Package oriented deployment
● Non standardized deployment models
● Rule re-use is hard

5. Future 6.x
● UberFire
– All panels are plugins
– Flexible Layout
– Perspectives
– Contextual toolbars, menus
● Security obfustication
– Built in Security
– Will build out base components
● Problem views, property editors, documentation viewer,
Cheat Sheets

6. Future 6.x
● GIT backend
● Jar oriented deployment
– Maven plugin
– Fits in Maven operational infrastructure
● Better rule reuse
– KBase includes
● Declarative programming models with CDI
– @Inject @KBase @Ksession

7. Future 6.x
● New Algorithm
– Merges ideas from: Rete, Leaps, Unlinking
● Big DRL clean up and Changes
– Biggest changes since 3.0
– Lots of new advanced language features
● Conditional Branches, Event Sequencing
● More Advanced AI
– JTMS, Defeasible Logic
– Description Logic
● Continue to improve programming models
– How we write and structure rules and groups of
rules,

8. Past 5.x

9. Future 6.x

10. Future 6.x

11. Future 6.x

12. Future 6.x

13. Introducing
UberFire

14. Web Based
Workbench
inspired by eclipse rcp

15. Preview
markdown editor
file explorer

16. Behind Next Generation
Drools & jBPM
[web] tooling

17. Some Features
●
Decoupled components
●
Easily aggregation of components
●
Layout Manager, Perspectives and Views
●
Embeddable in any application
●
Reuse components as Eclipse plugins(*)

18. Perspectives
dashboard
welcome

19. Underline Technology
ERRAI GWT
CDI JEE6
Java

20. Technical Overview
●
Light weight container abstraction for Panels
●
Standard Life cycle and callbacks
– @Start, @Close, @Hide, @Show
●
Abstracted API
– Menus, Toolbars, Panels (reuse)
●
Virtual File System
– NIO2 back-port
●
Persisted Perspectives
●
Bus architecture abstracts all components from
the workbench
– Allows ease of 3rd party embedability

21. Sample Code
@Dependent
@WorkbenchEditor(identifier = "TextEditor")
public class TextEditorPresenter {
public interface View extends IsWidget {
void setContent(String content);
void setDirty(boolean dirty);
}
@Inject
public View view;
@Inject
private Caller<VFSService> vfsServices;
@OnStart
public void onStart(final Path path) {
this.path = path;
vfsServices.call( new RemoteCallback<String>() {
@Override
public void callback(String response) {
view.setContent( response );
}
} ).readAllString( path );
}
@OnClose
public void onClose() {
this.path = null;
}
@WorkbenchPartTitle
public String getTitle() {
return "Text Editor [" + path + "]";
}
@WorkbenchPartView
public IsWidget getWidget() {
return view;

22. Result

23. Real Application...
jBPM Console