====== Drools.net Proposal Document ======
This document will be the closing capture statement of the Concept Development Phase.  Requires customer approval.

===== Idea =====
I need a good rules engine to use in the [[|WoW Bot]] project.  The drools engine is considered to be the best even among the ones that cost money.  The drools engine is written in java and so I ported the [[|WoW Bot]] project over to java and the app ran ten times slower then when it was in C#.  Mind you, this port changed very little in the logical flow of the code.  So I need to keep the project in C#.  The port of drools that is on the internet is just a C# wrapper to the java engine.  This means that the preformance is still the same.  So, the goal is to port the code completly over to C#.

===== High Concept =====
Port the Drools engine over to C# for preformance reasons.

===== Target Market Segment Strategy =====
This is to identify what the underlying message will be and how it will be conveyed to the target market.

===== Features =====
It will be faster than the java implementation.

===== Target Market =====
Anyone that wants drools to run faster in C#.

===== Target Hardware Platform =====
Any hardware that can run C# and drools.

===== Estimated Schedule and Budget =====
There is a lot of code I am esitmating that it would take 2-3 months to convert the code over at 1 FTE.

===== Competitive Analysis =====
There are other rule engines but they seem to be confined to java.  I prefer JESS but it is a pay to use and it is written in java.

===== The Team =====
Someone that can port java to C#.

===== Risk Analysis =====
The community may see the same problems in the Drools.net implementation that I see and fix it before I complete my work.  Also, this work is being done in my free time.

===== Summary =====
Drools running in C# at ten times the speed of java.