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Course Outline
Short introduction to rule engines
- Brief history of Expert Systems and Rules Engines
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Forward chaining versus backward chaining
- Declarative approaches versus procedural/object-oriented programming
- Comparison of available solutions
- When to utilize rule engines?
- When to avoid rule engines?
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Declarative models versus traditional fact models
- Executing simple rules with straightforward tests
- Authoring assets
- Decision tables
- Rule templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing, limitations, and benefits
- Developing simple processes that incorporate rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless versus stateful sessions
- Selecting the appropriate facts
- Basic operators and Drools-specific operators
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc.)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (numerous hands-on examples)
Ordering rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow versus BPMN 2.0
- Executing a rule set from a process
- Distinguishing rules from gateways
- Overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL for management consumption
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) using DSL
- Strategies for writing DSL based on rules
- Strategies for translating analyst-written DSL into rules
Unit testing
- Testing strategies (test per case versus test per rule)
- Automating test execution
Requirements
While not mandatory, programming proficiency in any language (such as SQL, Java, C#, or VBA) is strongly recommended.
21 Hours
Testimonials (2)
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
Exercises and solving problems in groups when the problems were more difficult.
