Implementing Red Hat JBoss BRMS (JB465) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Overview of this course

• Learn about the architecture, basic deployment options, and the business need for a business rules management system such as Red Hat JBoss BRMS.

Module 2: Authoring basic business rules

• Develop business rule structure and components, including facts working memory.
• Identify rule components.
• Author rules with Business Central and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS).

Module 3: Integrating business rules with Java applications

• Use the knowledge API to integrate rules processing into an application.

Module 4: Authoring rules as technical rules, decision tables, templates, and domain-specific language files

• Author rules using the Business Central technical rule editor and create a spreadsheet decision tables.
• Create rule templates.

Module 5: Business rules decision tables and rule templates

• Create spreadsheets with rules and rule templates.

Module 6: Domain-specific languages in BRMS

• Learn the purpose of domain-specific languages (DSLs), how to author them, and how to use them in a rule in BRMS.
• Use domain-specific languages created by developers to create rules.

Module 7: Testing business rules

• Test business rules using both the Business Central web interface and Java coding.

Module 8: Authoring complex rules with BRMS

• Author complex business rules using advanced conditions and field constraints.

Module 9: Controlling rule execution

• Control rule execution.
• Learn how to avoid rule conflicts.

Module 10: Debugging basic business rules in Drools

• Debug Drools applications in JBDS.

Module 11: Complex event processing in BRMS

• Create and use complex event processing (CEP) with rules.

Module 12: Integration with Business Central

• Gain an overview of BRMS administration with Business Central, a web application built into BRMS.
• Learn how to integrate Business Central with Java code.