OpenRules Classic: Evaluation Version Download

WhatsNew:

2024 Jan. Release 10.1.0 comes with essentially enhanced RuleSolver and RuleDB, plus various improvements of the core product.
2023 Sep. OpenRules presented “Declarative Decision Modeling with Rule Solver" at DecisionCAMP
2023 Jul. Release 10.0 essentially changes the internal structure of the generated Java code to support newly introduced OpenRules features such as dynamically defined decision variables with the qualifier “Of”, advanced “for-each” loops, SpringBoot 3, JDKs versions 1.8, 11, and 17+ with Jakarta, and more.

This OpenRules guide
is available from Amazon.
OpenRules Books are
accompanied by free
evaluation software
available from here

WhatTheySay:

Forrester Research, Inc.

"OpenRules have the most-aggressive approaches to business-expert authoring and typically requires less developer support than IBM ODM, FICO Blaze Advisor, and Red Hat Drools."
Market Overview: Business Rules Platforms

Events:

		DecisionCAMP-2024 Sep 18-20 Online
		BBC-2024 Apr 15-19, 2024, Orlando, USA

Presentations

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This evaluation version is a fully functional release of OpenRules Classic that allows you to evaluate the major system functionality and to build your own decision projects. You need access attributes to proceed with this download. Click here if you do not have access attributes. You also may subscribe to OpenRules support to always receive the latest releases.

Pre-requisites
- Java Standard Edition: Java SE SDK 1.6 or higher
- Apache Ant 1.6 or higher (optional - only if you want to add/modify Java code. Click here if you need help with Java/Ant installation)
- MS Excel or Google Sheets or OpenOffice (for rules administration)

Installation
Download the following file

openrules_8.2.1.models.zip (~19 Mb) - Examples of business decision models including thsoe described in this book.

Unzip it to your hard-drive. After unzip, the folder “openrules.models” will contain executable OpenRules sample projects. Each project has its own subdirectory such as "Hello". OpenRules libraries and related templates are located in the configuration project “openrules.config”. You may execute any project by double-click on the file “run.bat” from a regular Window Explorer. You may find a detailed description of a sample project "Hello" in the Getting Started document.

You may also download the workspace openrules_8.2.1.services.zip (~16 Mb) with OpenRules-based microservices created using Maven, SpringBoot, and Docker as described in this tutorial.

To start using OpenRules within Eclipse IDE, simply import all projects from the downloaded folder "openrules.models" into your Eclipse workspace.

You always may request and receive the source code.

Useful Hints

Under Windows, you cannot have spaces in the path where OpenRules is installed. So, instead of the installation path such as "c:\Program Files\openrules" you would rather use something like "c:\openrules".
If you use Linux/Unix, you probably already know how to replace “run.bat” with “run.sh”.

Note. This evaluation version does not include additional OpenRules components available with the Complete Production Version of OpenRules: