Paul Browne

Paul Browne

Biography

Paul Browne's life changed at the age of 11 when his father bought him a CP/M home computer. Unfortunately, the computer company went bankrupt the following week, so Paul had to write his own games in machine code. Almost escaping the IT Industry, he trained in Business, French, and other strange places where people wear suits and ties. Paul now realizes that IT is a far happier and almost cool way to earn a living.

Based in Dublin, Ireland, Paul Browne has been consulting in enterprise Java with FirstPartners.net for almost seven years. When not promoting the open source Red Piranha (Search and Knowledge Management) and NoUnit (Junit Test Coverage) projects, he can be found blogging online.

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Using Drools in Your Enterprise Java Application
Publish Date: Aug. 24, 2005Enterprise Java developers have many fine framework choices at the presentation and persistence levels, but what about the business logic that sits in the middle? Do you want to recompile a mass of if ... then spaghetti code every time a manager drops a new gotcha in your lap? In this article, Paul Browne suggests that a rule engine like Drools may be an ideal fit for this task. Give Your Business Logic a Framework with Drools
Publish Date: Aug. 3, 2005It's almost too easy to express your business logic as a spaghetti-code fiasco. The result is hard to test, hard to maintain, and hard to update. Rule engines offer an alternative: express your business logic as rules, outside of your Java code, in a format even the business side of the office can understand. Paul Browne uses the open source Drools framework to introduce the idea.

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Workflow and Business Rules - why you need both, June 17 2008
Spring MVC, JavaFX , Google Web Toolkit and Struts2 - State of the (dis)Union., March 12 2008
Business Users Creating Rules - BRMS Guide Preview (JBoss Drools), February 19 2008
How to explain Rules and RuleFlow to your Boss, December 07 2007
How Big is too Big?, November 19 2007
Flash Killers - Java FX, Silverlight, Groovy and Xoetrope, November 12 2007
The top 10 Speakers at the Irish Java Technologies Conference, October 25 2007
Does your bad Java code need help? (from Rules and Flow), October 01 2007
Red Hat Developer Studio - Good but could have been Great, September 13 2007
Easy Ajax with Struts 2, June 28 2007
Yahoo Pipes could do better, March 27 2007
SOA for Idiots, March 22 2007
Advanced Java - whats YOUR opinion?, March 06 2007
Dear Bruce Eckel : Hybrid Java, Google Web Toolkit and Adobe Flex, January 31 2007
Java and those pesky Google APIs, January 23 2007
Do Google Spreadsheets mean the end of Java?, January 18 2007
Struts 2 is the new Mini, December 18 2006
Dear Open Source Santa,, December 04 2006
Open Java changes Everything, November 24 2006
SQL programs are the cockroaches of the IT world., November 06 2006
Agile Architecture, November 02 2006
Storing Business Rules in a Database, October 22 2006
An Oracle tool that's worth looking at., October 19 2006
Back to the future with Java and Retroweaver, August 22 2006
What Dublin Java Developers think you should be learning ..., July 26 2006
JRuby - Web 2.0 in the Enterprise Java world, July 20 2006
Enterprise Web 2.0 = SOA (Service Orientated Archtecture), July 10 2006
Fixed Price? Don't Get Stung., June 30 2006
Ajax / Javascript sites from Sun, June 20 2006
Real-World Rule Engines, June 19 2006
Three things not to forget ... that I did., June 16 2006
What comes after Java and .Net? Agents., June 11 2006
Is O'Reilly One of the good guys? Maybe ..., May 26 2006
How workflow is going to change your life., May 20 2006
Java Architecture? One size fits all., May 06 2006
Web 2.0 - Almost Mainstream?, April 30 2006
The 2nd most useful Java-Oracle Tool for 2006, April 26 2006

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