What’s in a name – KIE, Kogito, or Drools?

In this chapter, we’ve used the terms KIE, Drools, and Kogito almost as if they were the same project. While the three projects work very closely together, it’s useful to note that there are fundamental differences:

• The original business rules community project is Drools. While it is possible to interact directly with Drools (and many advanced projects do so), we take the easier approach of using the tools provided by KIE. The Drools home page can be found at https://www.drools.org/.
• KIE (or Knowledge is Everything) is the umbrella project of which Drools is now part. For example, it provides KIE Sandbox, which we’ll use to edit rules and decision models starting in Chapter 3. It also provides other knowledge management tools, such as integrating machine learning and rules, which we’ll cover in Chapter 11. The KIE home page can be found at https://www.kie.org/.
• The Kogito project empowers...