Developing Rules Applications with Red Hat JBoss BRMS (JB463) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Author basic rules

• Author basic business rules using Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio.
  • Rule basics
  • Rule components
  • Rule processing in JBTravel - a case study
  • Authoring rules with JBoss Developer Studio

Module 2: Decision tables

• Describe the purpose and layout of a spreadsheet decision table, and identify how JBoss BRMS loads the decision table at runtime.
  • Decision tables in a spreadsheet
  • Decision tables at runtime

Module 3: Domain-specific languages

• Describe the purpose of domain-specific languages (DSLs), how to declare them, and how to use them in a rule.
  • Domain specific language
  • DSL mapping file
  • DSL rule implementation

Module 4: Test rules

• Verify that given appropriate facts, a rule will be matched and actioned.
  • Test rules with Junit.

Module 5: Author complex rules

• Describe and use rules.
  • Advanced conditional elements
  • Advanced field constraints
  • Additional rule components
  • Queries
  • Backward chaining

Module 6: Develop rule applications

• Implement rule management and rule integration into an application and call the rule server at runtime.
  • Rule management
  • Rule integration
  • Rule execution server

Module 7: Control rule execution

• Describe and implement conflict resolution strategies in rule execution.

Module 8: Debug Drools

• Describe the process of debugging Drools applications in Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio.

Module 9: Complex event processing

• Describe and use complex event processing with rules.

Module 10: Performance (subject to time)

• Optimize the processing and performance of rule execution at runtime.