[drools-user] Drools 2.5

[Mark Proctor]

I'm going to be doing a Drools 2.5 beta very soon, just doing final 
touches and checking build. I'm doing this as a beta because it is a big 
fundamental change. RuleSets, for Java and Groovy, now pre-compiled down 
to jars with real classes; src jars also made available. Creating a 
RuleBase is as simply as doing RuleBaseLoader.loadFromURL( url ), where 
url points to a JAR, no compilation needed - great for people with very 
large rulesets. Of course the RuleSet compilation and rulebase loading 
can be done at runtime in the same process, which would be effectively 
what we had before. I have also moved to Eclipse JDT, so we now have 
java 5 support.

If you have anything essential to commit, or want fixing, for 2.5 then 
speak up ASAP. After 2.5 I will be concentrating solely on 3.0, unless 
something really bad in 2.x rears its ugly head.

Mark