Hi,
I am currently evaluating Drools for our needs, from the features it
seems to be a perfect fit. I am a Java developer, but unfortunately I
have no background in enterprise application servers and I am currently
stuck trying to setup a testing environment. A short summary of our
current setup and how we want to use Drools:
* We are using Storm <https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm> to
accumulate a large number of messages from around the web
* From these we create streams of message metadata (like sentiment)
for different topics (like stocks)
* We have additional streams like stock-tickers
* We have a knowledge-base of additional facts about companies (like
market cap.) in MySQL
* We want users to be able to define alerts triggered by rules based
on these streams and facts
Storm is perfect for the data pre-processing and aggregation, Drools
would fit in to allow outsiders to define rules and evaluate them on the
streams in realtime. My idea is, to run Drools Fusion as a stand-alone
application on a dedicated server or cluster of servers. Drools Guvnor
would be used as an interface for the rules. The rules would trigger new
events, which would be sent to a subscription channel (like Redis Pub/Sub).
As mentioned above, I have no experience in setting up and running Java
application servers. The Drools documentation seems to be very
elaborate, but assume that you know how to start such a service from
scratch, which I don't. I know Java, but not at an enterprise level, so
all the Beans, wars, etc. are new to me. I setup a JBoss AS, which was a
pretty easy thing to do, but I am clueless about how to really "run"
Drools on it and what to do next.
So what would be the next steps to get a server, where I can send
messages to? Are there any tutorials or guidelines which describe how to
built such a thing from the very beginning? Any help or suggestion would
be very appreciated!
Regards & thanks in advance,
Thomas Söhngen
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