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Drools Game of Life Example

David Wallace Croft

2008 Nov 10 Mon

Slides

This is an export of the slides for my presentation to the Dallas Rules Group. I spoke about an example from the Drools rule engine documentation, a cellular automata simulation called Conway's Game of Life.

• PDF export

• OpenDocument (original format, images separate)

Topics include:

• Downloading, compiling, and running the Drools example
• Demonstration of Conway's Game of Life
• Installing the Drools Eclipse Plugin
• Step debugging the example using the Drools Eclipse Plugin
• Drools language features: agenda-group, no-loop, lock-on-active
• How the example applies to rule-based games and simulations

Links

• Conway's Game of Life (Wikipedia entry)

• CroftSoft Life (Open Source Java applet)

• Drools (Open Source Java rule engine)

• Game of Life example (Drools documentation direct link)

• Dallas Rules Group (local users group)