Drools 6.2.0.Final Released

We are happy to announce the latest and greatest Drools 6.2.0.Final release. This release in particular had a greater focus…

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OptaPlanner – Scaling Vehicle Routing with Nearby Selection

OptaPlanner 6.2 has made big step forward for the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) and similar use…

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Red Hat JBoss BRMS and BPMS Rich Client Framework demonstrating Polyglot Integration with GWT/Errai/UberFire and AngularJS

Last week I published a blog highlighting a presentation I gave showing our rich client platform that has resulted from…

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Prototyping an enterprise webapp at Devoxx Hackergarten

For the 10th year in a row, I attended DevoxxBe. It’s my favorite Java conference, but the talk schedule isn’t…

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OptaPlanner – Open benchmarks for the win

Recently, there was some commotion on Twitter because a competitor heavily restricts publicising benchmarks of their Solver as part of…

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OptaPlanner – Vehicle routing with real road distances

In the real world, vehicles in a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) have to follow the roads: they can’t travel in…

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Pluggable Knowledge with Custom Assemblers, Weavers and Runtimes

As part of the Bayesian work I’ve refactored much of Kie to have clean extension points. I wanted to make…

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Cheating on the N Queens benchmark

Many Solver distributions include an N Queens example, in which n queens need to be placed on a n*n sized…

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How much faster is Java 8?

Java SE 8 was released yesterday. Traditionally, every new major JRE version comes with a free performance boost. Do we…

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