Course Outline
Introduction to Rule Engines
- Artificial Intelligence
- Expert Systems
- Definition of a Rule Engine
- Benefits of Using a Rule Engine
- Advantages of Rule Engines
- When to Implement a Rule Engine
- Scripting vs. Process Engines
- Situations Where a Rule Engine Is Not Suitable
- Strong and Loose Coupling
- Understanding Rules
Creating and Implementing Rules
- Fact Model
- KIE
- Rule Versioning and Repository Management
- Exercises
Domain Specific Language (DSL)
- Implementing Rules with DSL
- Testing DSL Rules
- Exercises
jBPM
- Integration with Drools
- Overview of Basic BPMN
- Invoking Rules from a Process
- Grouping Rules
- Exercises
Fusion
- Understanding Complex Event Processing
- Overview of Fusion
- Exercises
Mvel - The Rule Language
- Filtering (fact types, fields)
- Operators
- Compound Conditions
- Operator Precedence
- Accumulate Functions (average, min, max, sum, collectList, etc.)
Rete - Under the Hood
- Compilation Algorithm
- Drools RETE Extensions
- Node Types
- Understanding the Rete Tree
- Rete Optimization
Rules Testing
- Testing with KIE
- Testing with JUnit
OptaPlanner
- Overview of OptaPlanner
- Simple Examples
Integrating Rules with Applications
- Invoking Rules from Java Code
Requirements
Fundamental understanding of an object-oriented programming language.
Basic knowledge of the relational data model (RDBMS).
A general understanding of Business Process Modelling.
Testimonials (3)
The trainer was so knowledgeable about the subject
Herman - Megatech Systems (Pty) Ltd
Course - jBPM for Developers
The training definitely backfilled some of the gaps in my knowledge left by reading the OptaPlanner userguide. It gave me a good broad understanding of how to approach using OptaPlanner in our projects going forward.
Terry Strachan - Exel Computer Systems plc
Course - OptaPlanner in Practice
The training is very interesting and can be useful on our future projects and the trainer is always active on answering our questions and helping us when we are having issues on our end.
