JBoss BRMS components and architecture

The JBoss BRMS platform is built on top of a set of open source projects and independent components:

JBoss BRMS core components include the following:

• A generic UI application built from the Drools Workbench project to author, manage, and test business rules and decisions tables. In the BRMS platform, this module is called Business Central. 
• BRMS includes a set of plugins shipped with Integration Stack to improve the user experience while developing business rules applications with JBoss Developer Studio; this set can be extended with Drools IDE, which is an optional Eclipse plugin that allows users to author rules within Eclipse.
• Knowledge Is Everything (KIE) provides two distinct functionalities:
  • A knowledge store where all resources are stored. The store also provides a rule and domain model artifact versioning.
  • A knowledge API that allows applications to consume rules from the knowledge store. This implements separation between applications and business...