Developing Rules Applications with Red Hat JBoss BRMS

• Rule authors responsible for authoring and testing rules, using Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio
• Java application developers responsible for developing and integrating business rules into Java and Java EE enterprise applications

• Basic Java and Java EE programming experience
• Knowledge of the Eclipse IDE, Maven, and GIT are useful, but not essential
• Business rule development experience is not required

• Authoring basic business rules in Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio
• Authoring advanced rules
• Testing and debugging business rules
• Using spreadsheet decision tables
• Authoring and using DSL mapping files
• Red Hat JBoss BRMS architecture and runtime rule execution
• Controlling rule execution and preventing conflicts
• Complex event processing (CEP)

Developing Rules Applications with Red Hat JBoss BRMS (JB463) teaches rule developers and Java™ enterprise application developers how to create, test, debug, and control business rules, how to generate rules packages, and how the Red Hat JBoss BRMS [business rules management system] runtime environment executes rules.

Students will use Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 7 and Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 to perform detailed, hands-on exercises that enable them to create and manage business rules in a production environment. The principles in this course can be applied to implementing a standalone Red Hat JBoss BRMS solution or a Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite (business process management) solution.

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.