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Haley Systems Advances Business Rule Implementation Standards for JSR-94
Rules Markup Language Provides First Practical Way to Interchange Rule Engine-Independent Syntax through JSR-94 Compliant API
PITTSBURGH, PA - April 18, 2006 - As part of a major new initiative to promote industry standards for rules interchange, Haley Systems, Inc., a leading provider of business rules management systems, today introduced the Rules Markup Language, a schema for specifying business rules in XML. The company also announced its immediate support for the JSR-94 specification for the Java Rule Engine API through its rules engine, HaleyRules-JP 5.3. Haley Systems is the first business rules vendor to advance the practical use of JSR-94 by providing a corresponding standard rules syntax.
"Haley is committed not only to supporting standards for rules interchange, but also to helping move them forward. With this announcement, we are the first business rules vendor to advance the practical use of the JSR-94 standard," said Haley President and CEO Hans Witt. "We are delivering what was until now the key missing ingredient for JSR-94 - rules syntax definitions. This is a major step forward toward making business rules ubiquitous."
The XML Schema Definition (XSD) for Haley's RML specifies the syntax of rules as supported by both HaleyRules engines and the popular Eclipse language. With RML and Haley's JSR-94 implementation, developers using either HaleyAuthority or Eclipse can generate JSR-94-compliant code that runs against the HaleyRules engine or any Eclipse-compatible rules engine.
"We are not surprised to see business rules vendors moving in the direction of vendor neutrality and rules interchange," said Jim Sinur, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "Proprietary APIs have been holding back business rules from more widespread adoption. For business rules systems to fulfill their market potential, eventually they will need to be as widely supported and interchangeable as processes and databases."
The source code for Haley's JSR-94 implementation and the XSD for RML are publicly available on Haley's Web site. Also available for review and download is the documentation and heavily commented source code for JSR-94. HaleyRules-JP supporting JSR-94 and RML is available for download and free use for research and educational purposes by non-profit educational institutions.
JSR-94, developed through the Java Community Process (JCP) program, defines a Java runtime API for rule engines by providing a simple API to access a rule engine from a Java Platform, Standard Edition or a Java Platform, Edition client. While it provides guidelines for the APIs, JSR-94 does not define how rules are constructed or manipulated
Commented Paul Haley, founder, EVP and CTO of Haley Systems, "We are making RML available to the rules community with the full intent of supporting it in combination with JSR-94 and across open source rules engines and other, emerging rule standards and the efforts of the W3C Working Group on Rules Interchange Format. Our hope is to help jump-start widespread adoption of the standard by making this syntax for implementing JSR-94 available as much as a year before the release of the W3C spec."