The WSO2 Business Rules Server (BRS) 2.0.0 Released!

05 November 2012

The WSO2 BRS team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0.0 of the Open Source Business Rules Server (BRS).

WSO2 Business Rules Server (WSO2 BRS) is to be your Business Rule Management System (BRMS). Our ultimate goal is to provide you with the suitable capability of codifying, executing, and maintaining your organization's decisions.

BRS 2.0.0 supports exposing your organization' decisions as Secure, Reliable Web services. The integration with our Enterprise Service Bus supports incorporating your dynamic integration decisions to the your enterprise' applications integration solution.

WSO2 BRS 2.0.0 is developed on top of the revolutionary Carbon platform , and is based on the OSGi framework to achieve the better modularity for your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This also contains a lots of new features and many other optional components to customize the behavior of the server. Further, if you do not want any of the built in features, you can uninstall those features without any trouble. In other words, BRS can be customized to your SOA needs.

You can download this distribution from http://wso2.com/products/business-rules-server/ and give it a try.

How to Run

  1. Extract the downloaded zip
  2. Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
  3. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
  4. Point your browser to the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon
  5. Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an admin and create a user account
  6. Assign the required permissions to the user through a role
  7. If you need to start the OSGi console with the server use the property -DosgiConsole when starting the server. The INSTALL.txt file found on the installation directory will give you a comprehensive set of options and properties that can be passed into the startup script

Key Features of WSO2 BRS 2.0.0

  • Expose Bussiness rules as a web Service
  • Drools based back end runtime
  • Management User Interface for creating, deploying, monitoring, and testing rule services
  • JSR 94 Compliant
  • Based on carbon platform it provides all the QOS features such as Security, Reliable Messaging, caching etc ...

All the open issues pertaining to WSO2 BRS 2.0.0 are reported at following locations:

How You Can Contribute

Mailing Lists

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

Reporting Issues

WSO2 encourages you to report issues and your enhancement requests for the WSO2 BRS using the public JIRA.

You can also watch how they are resolved, and comment on the progress..

Discussion Forums

Alternatively, questions could be raised using the forums available.

WSO2 BRS Forum : Discussion forum for WSO2 BRS developers/users

Support

WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of development and production support programs, ranging from Web-based support up through normal business hours, to premium 24x7 phone support.

For additional support information please refer to http://wso2.com/support/

For more information on WSO2 BRS, visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank (http://wso2.org)

We welcome your feedback on this implementation. Thank you for your interest in WSO2 BRS.

-- The WSO2 BRS Team --