8:00 – 10:00 CSIP

• Starting to dig into Drools.
• Starting documentation
• Attempting to install the Drools Eclipse Plugins from the amazingly sullen JBoss update site
• Well, at least it’s started updating. Heading off to class with high hopes of progress upon my return!
• Yay – downloaded and installed
• I came across this over the weekend that looks like an eclipse-based graphical rules engine that could be used as a reference case. It’s from Repast, a system that I did quite a bit of work with back when I was consulting for UMD/ONR. Looks like they’ve been doing quite a bit of work on the system.

10:00 – 1:00 FP

1:00 – 4:00 CSIP

• Onward with Drools
• Planner (http://docs.jboss.org/drools/release/5.3.0.Final/drools-planner-docs/html/ch01.html, and http://www.jboss.org/drools/drools-planner.html)
• Huh, Drools uses fitness tests, but doesn’t have a genetic algorithm/programming component. Interesting.
• Downloaded the drools-planner-distribution-5.3.0.Final
• Added as a preexisting project. All kinds of Java errors, which were fixed by running Maven on the POM file followed by mvn eclipse:eclipse. Then all the .drl files were being flagged as errors. While flailing generally, I noticed that I could set the project as a drools project (which it wasn’t yet apparently). That seems to have fixed all the errors, though there are a bunch of “Java raw type” warnings
• Got the following message: The directory dataDir (C:Droolsdrools-planner-distribution-5.3.0.Finalexamplessourcesdatanqueens) does not exist. The working directory should be set to the directory that contains the data directory. This is different in a git clone (drools-planner/drools-planner-examples) and the release zip (examples).
• Fixed by copying the data directory from the examples level to the sources level.
• Everything is running. Tomorrow, we figure out what it means!