Overview
This course is aimed at enterprise architects, business and system analysts and managers who want to apply business rules to their solution. With Drools, you can write your business rules using almost natural language, therefore reducing the gap between business and IT.
Course Outline
Short Introduction to Rule Engines
- Artificial Intelligence
- Expert Systems
- What is a Rule Engine?
- Why use a Rule Engine?
- Advantages of a Rule Engine
- When should you use a Rule Engine?
- Scripting or Process Engines
- When you should NOT use a Rule Engine
- Strong and Loose Coupling
- What are rules?
Creating and Implementing Rules
- Fact Model
- KIE
- Eclipse
Domain Specific Language (DSL)
- Replacing rules with DSL
- Testing DSL rules
jBPM
- Integration with Drools
Fusion
- What is Complex Event Processing?
- Short overview on Fusion
Rules Testing
- Testing with KIE
- Testing with JUnit