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