JSR-94 is the Java Specification Request

Java Community Process

The Java Community Process or JCP, established in 1998, is a formalized process that allows interested parties to get involved in the definition of future versions and features of the Java platform....

 for a Java Rules Engine

Business rules engine

A business rules engine is a software system that executes one or more business rules in a runtime production environment. The rules might come from legal regulation , company policy , or other sources...

 API. The specification for the Java Rule Engine API (JSR 94), developed through the Java Community Process (JCP) program, defines a Java runtime API for rule engines by providing a simple API to access a rule engine from a Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, formerly known as J2SE) or a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, formerly known as J2EE) Java technology client.

Implementations

• Pega Rules Process Commander
• Drools
  Drools
  Drools is a business rule management system with a forward chaining inference based rules engine, more correctly known as a production rule system, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm....
  
  
• Hammurapi Rules
• ILOG
  ILOG
  ILOG is an international software company owned by IBM. It creates enterprise software products for supply chain, business rule management, visualization and optimization....
  
   JRules
• Jess programming language
  Jess programming language
  Jess is a rule engine for the Java platform - it is a superset of CLIPS programming language, developed by Ernest Friedman-Hill of Sandia National Labs. It was first written in late 1995....
  
  
• Blaze Advisor
• Oracle Business Rules
• OpenRules

External links

• Java Community Process JSR-94 Page