New & Noteworthy

New features in the latest release of Visual Rules Enterprise Platform.

Version 4.5

Release date: 06/30/2009

Visual Rules Modeler 4.5

• New versioning and definition of dependencies between rule projects
• Dynamic dependency resolution between projects and/or artifacts from an artifact repository (e.g. Apache Archiva)
• Support for Maven project layouts
• Reuse of rule models inside of JARs (rule artifacts)
• New test suite editor for definition and execution of multiple tests
• Import of decision tables from Excel
• Copy&paste of data into and out of test editor
• Service mocking during test execution
• Rule model and test refactoring when deleting elements (particularly input/output data, attributes etc.)
• Manual overrides within the "Automatic Element Creation" dialog
• Recategorized built-in functions

Visual Rules QA & Deployment Tools 4.5

• Full Maven support, including storage of rule artifacts in Maven artifact repositories
• Maven plugins for model validation, creation of rule code, WSDL and rule artifacts, and deployment
• Support for rule artifacts (JARs with rule code and rule models) for dependency resolution, for deployment, but also for modeling in Visual Rules Modeler (see above)
• New Ant task for Execution Server deployments

Visual Rules Execution Server 4.5

• Dynamic routing of requests to rule models (based on metadata)
• Support for external databases
• Creation and retrieval of execution statistics for traceability

Visual Rules Team Server 4.5

• Support for external databases
• Improved performance

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