Drools Business Central Workbench WAR for JBoss EAP7

Question

The current Drools documentation (7.47.0) says on chapter 14 that one should use the WAR from the Business Central Workbench distribution corresponding to the application server in use and explicitly refers to Wildfly and JBoss EAP 7 as available options.

However, only the Wildfly WAR of Business Central 7.47.0 is available from the official Drools download page and from the Maven repository.

Can anyone please point me how to obtain the WAR for JBoss EAP 7 ? Is it otherwise possible to easily build it directly from source?

Answer 1

Wildfly is upstream project and JBoss EAP is downstream / productized one, fully supported by Red Hat. It's based on WildFly though. The same relationship exists between Drools and Red Hat Decision Manager (RHDM).

I would recommend to stick with Drools and Wildfly unless you are Red Hat paying customer. If you are paying customer, then you should use RHDM+EAP. It's possible to use RHDM+EAP for development purposes for free though: https://developers.redhat.com/products/red-hat-decision-manager/hello-world#fndtn-macos