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
- Rules visioning and repository
- Exercises
Domain Specific Language (DSL)
- Replacing rules with DSL
- Testing DSL rules
- Exercises
jBPM
- Integration with Drools
- Short overview of basic BPMN
- Invoking rules from a process
- Grouping rules
- Exercises
Fusion
- What is Complex Event Processing?
- Short overview on Fusion
- Exercises
Mvel - the rule language
- Filtering (fact type, field
- Operators
- Compound conditions
- Operators priority
- Accumulate Functions (average, min, max, sum, collectList, etc....)
Rete - under the hood
- Compilation algorithm
- Drools RETE extensions
- Node Types
- Understating Rete Tree
- Rete Optimization
Rules Testing
- Testing with KIE
- Testing with JUnit
OptaPlanner
- An overview of OptaPlanner
- Simple examples
Integrating Rules with Applications
- Invoking rules from Java Code
Requirements
Basic knowledge of any object oriented programming language.
Basic knowledge of relational data model (RDBMS).
Basic idea of Business Process Modelling.
Testimonials (5)
I liked all the materials and the trainer as well...
Neagu Simona - DB Global Technology SRL
Course - jBPM for Developers
I appreciate the fact that they address my suggestion before to share the presentation with manual before the training. Very helpful on my part. Also, the individual activity, I liked it, our trainer were able to see how we interpret each case scenarios.
Kim Justine Ferriol - Thakral One, Inc.
Course - jBPM and Drools
I loved that he was able to see our machines to help us when we got stuck.
Megan Burns - Sandia National Labs
Course - Drools 7 and DSL for Business Analysts
I liked the positive and optimistic attitude. Gives good answers to questions.
Emil Krabbe Nielsen
Course - Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers
I really enjoyed the good atmosphere.