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1. Why Business Rules?

• Traditional business application development
• What’s the challenge with traditional business application development?
• Business Rules approach and the difference
• Advantages of Business Rules Approach

2. IBM/ILOG JRules BRMS

• Rule Studio – for Java developers
• Rule Team Server – for Business Users
• Rule Scenario Manager – for rule testing
• Rule Execution Server – run time platform
• Roles and Responsibilities in Rule based development

3. Guidelines to Developing ILOG Business Rules Application

• Approach to Business Rules Development and life-cycle
• Agile Business Rule Development methodology
• Application Architecture
• Designing Rule Project Hierarchy
• Orchestrating Rule Execution
• Authoring Rules
• Debugging and Test Rules
• Packaging and Deployment
• Client application implementation

4. Rule Project and Rule Artifacts

• What is a Rule Project
• Rule Artifacts and how to use them
• Creating modular rule project hierarchy
• Best Practice on Rule Project design

5. Executable Object Model

• Two approaches to XOM creation
• Java XOM
• Dynamic XOM
• Pros & Cons on Java vs. Dynamic XOMs
• Best Practice on XOM design

6. Business Object Model

• Purpose of BOM
• Dissecting a BOM
• Navigation and Action Phrases
• Customizing and extending BOM
• Categories
• Mapping BOM to XOM
• Best Practices on BOM

7. Rule Authoring

• Basics of authoring rules
• BAL
• Decision Table
• Decision Tree
• Low level rule authoring in IRL
• Best Practices in rule authoring

8. Orchestration - Ruleflow and Execution

• Why is ruleflow needed?
• How to create rule flow
• Functions and Ruleset variables
• How to customize run time rule selection
• Best Practices on Rule Orchestration

9. Unit testing Rules

• Debugging setup with runner and launch configuration
• Debugging rules with debugger

10. Rule Execution Platform

• Embedded Rule Execution
• Managed Rule Execution
• Exposing RuleApp as SOA services
• Rule Execution Server architecture

11. Rule packing and deployment

• Ruleset
• RuleApp

12. Writing Rule Client

• Integrating Rule application
• Rule Session API
• How to create clients for specific execution platform
• Hosted Transparent Decision Service

13. Dynamic XOM

• When to use XML binding instead of Java XOM
• How to use XML/XSD for XOM classes
• Using Java XOM and Dynamic XOM together

14. Rule Team Server

• Introduction to RTS
• How to author rules in RTS
• How to Package & deploy ruleApp
• Customizing RTS

15. Rule Managements

• Queries
• Rule Analysis
• Change management
• Governance

16. Rule Engine Execution Strategies and Optimization

• Rule execution strategies
• How to select the optimal execution strategies
• Best Practices on Rule Execution