Memphis/Mid-South JUG

Who's Coming?

Blaine Mincey from JBoss/Red Hat will be with us to discuss Drools, the open source business rules engine produced by JBoss, as well as JBoss BRMS, their enterprise product built around Drools.

We will probably have time for 2-3 lightning talks as well - please let me know ASAP if you'd like to give a talk. Thanks!

We will again be treated to dinner/snacks courtesy of our principal sponsor, Vaco Technology. We will also have several exciting door prizes!

Speakers:

• Matt Stine

  

  Matt is the Group Leader of Research Application Development in the Research Informatics Division of Information Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital here in Memphis, TN. Matt has been developing and supporting enterprise Java applications in support of life sciences research for St. Jude since 2001. Matt is a committer to multiple open source projects and is the founding member of the Memphis/Mid-South JUG. Matt earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Mississippi, and was a graduating member of the inaugural class of the Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College. His current areas of interest include Groovy/Grails, cloud computing, Java concurrency, and functional programming.

  Topic: Polyglot Programming

  In this talk, I plan to convince you that within the next decade you'll no longer refer to yourself as a Java developer, at least not in terms of the language that you use on a day-to-day basis.

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• Blaine Mincey

  

  Blaine has over 12 years of experience designing and developing enterprise systems across a variety of fields including retail, transportation, bioinformatics, electronic commerce, and location based services. A JBoss proponent for many years, he is a member of the Atlanta Java Users Group and the Atlanta Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects. Blaine holds a BA from Mercer University, MBA from Shorter College, and is currently completing an MS in Applied Computer Science from Kennesaw State University.

  Topic: JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System

  IT organizations search for greater flexibility to improve business process agility. An agile application and business services portfolio is a key IT deliverable and one of the top focus items for businesses of all sizes. A more stringent regulatory environment drives IT departments to better manage critical business logic and rules, enabling superior business process automation and application and business process audit readiness. Achieving greater agility and transparency leads organizations to improve the modularity and accessibility of their business policies and rules by separating these from business processes and presentation logic into a business rules management system (BRMS).

  JBoss Enterprise BRMS provides an open source business rules management system that enables easy business policy and rules development, access, and change management. JBoss Enterprise BRMS includes a fast and highly efficient rule engine and easy to use rules development, management system and repository. JBoss Enterprise BRMS allows businesses to reduce development time to update applications, SOA deployments and business processes with the latest business rules and policies. The JBoss Enterprise BRMS engine implements the full Rete algorithm with high-performance indexing and optimization.

  In this session, you will learn about the features and capabilities available with the JBoss Enterprise BRMS and JBoss Enterprise BRMS engine. Additionally, a demonstration of the product will be provided.

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