Jazoon Day 1: Rules engines overview and case study

Motivation for the use of business rules

updates in business rules have to change overnight

Core idea

Treat business logic as business data

BRMS (Business Rules Management System)

BOM vs XOM

Business Object Model vs Execution Object Model

iLog vs Drools
equivalence of features.

Business Rules format
when

then

Advanced Features

Custom, Higher level business language (translated to the same rules behind the scene
Rule security

Rules engine and SOA

Used for Monitoring of SLA

Rules engine and CEP (Complex Event Processing)

Almost all BRMS have a CEP engine (well to me it seems a bit weird to say that... all engines have it, so it must be useful... :p )

A bit of feedback on 2 projects with iLog and CLIPS.