JBoss Drools - a hello world example

What is JBoss Drools? It is a framework where you can create rules that defines when a specific action should be done. This could be done in code using conditions. Creating them using a rule engine can make it easier to combine many business rules with many actions.

I tried to get a JBoss Drools example up and running. It turned out that the examples I found on the web were either were very complicated, tried to solve all possible problems or was just incomplete. I ended up writing my own example where I have removed everything that I didn't find necessary.

I divided this example in two parts. First part is the simplest possible solution that could work, a Hello World. In the second part I try to do something that actually could be useful. I trigger a rule and instantiates a class that could perform some action.

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We want to perform an integration test of a system using Maven. The application must be deployed on an application server and the application server must be started before we can perform the integration tests. The application should be undeployed and the application server should be terminated after the integration test has been performed no matter what the result of the test was.

How can this be achieved with Maven?

Maven and JBoss ESB - Hello World

I want to build a Hello World example for JBoss ESB using Maven instead of Ant. The original example bundled with JBoss ESB is using Ant. I have created a pom.xml that will do all the magic and re-located the example files to fit into a Maven structure.

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We will create a small Java application that connects to a database using Hibernate. We will use Spring to wire stuff together and Maven to build it.

How can I create a simple web application using Spring MVC?

I want to to create a very simple web application using Spring. I want to create it using Maven as build tool.