v3.1.0

This release is another important milestone for Easy Rules! We finally managed to get some long awaited features out 😄

The major additions of v3.1 are:

• New inference rules engine
• New Condition, Action and RuleBuilder APIs
• Support for using expression language to define rules

This release has also introduced a lot of API improvements thanks to some amazing contributors! Here is the full list of changes:

Features:

• issue #36: Use Expression Language to define rules
• issue #88: Add inference rules engine
• issue #113: Use SLF4J instead of java.util.logging
• issue #121: Add rules engine listener
• issue #119: Add Condition / Action APIs

Bug fixes:

• issue #91: Log performance in silent mode
• issue #100: Rule proxy's equals return unexpected result

Enhancements

• issue #123: cast friendly Facts
• issue #118: Use toString() to print engine parameters
• issue #111: Remove unnecessary method and interface
• issue #115: Override equals()/hashCode()/toString() same as BasicRule
• issue #104: [subFacts]: Conditions or Actions can have subclass of Facts as parameter
• issue #95: Improve the Facts api
• issue #94: A little optimization in RuleProxy.java

Deprecations

• issue #126: Deprecate RulesEngineBuilder
• issue #91: Methods RulesEngineParameters#setSilentMode and RulesEngineParameters#isSilentMode as well as constructors taking silentMode parameter

I would like to thank @wg1j, @sanmibuh, @shivmitra, @cemo and @khandelwalankit for their contributions!