title: Authoring JBoss Drools rules using UI
body: <p>We're using JBoss Drools to externalise some particularly prone to change business logic in some services we are building.</p>
  
  <p>Where these rules can be created and maintained by our developers this is working very well and we have a good level of integration and integrated workflow. </p>
  
  <p>We are looking to expand its use to a new service that has a very high level of customisation required. Essentially an "expert user" needs to be able to setup rules of two different kinds:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>"standard" rules - these are almost implicit rules that we know are common requirements and which we could build UI for to set e.g. only allowing certain operations to take place between two dates etc.</p></li>
  <li><p>"custom" rules - completely off the wall requests that whilst we could try and anticipate we'd rather just let people write and test their own rules against :)</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>My question is, is it possible (and indeed is there anything out there as an example) of using Drools for both 1 &amp; 2? Basically, to have a fixed UI application author Drools rules effectively AND have a "free text" rule editor embedded in our UI?</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions appreciated!</p>