Every once in a while, my Google alerts brings up something that makes me say ‘that is kind of cool’.  For instance, today this announcement that a fleet of US Navy destroyers will be using a Java rules engine, called Jesse, that is built on top of Eclipse.

I realize there are lots of rules engines built on top of Eclipse but having Eclipse deployed on a destroyer sounds kind of neat.   I also didn’t realize that Sandia National Labs was doing Eclipse development; kind of cool too.