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 (3)
What I appreciated most about the training was the inspiring way the trainer conveyed their knowledge with clarity, passion, and kindness, making every moment both enriching and motivating.
LEILA SARNI - Ministere le l'Emploi et de la Solidarite sociale
Course - Drools 8 with jBPM: Building Rule-Based Business Workflows
Machine Translated
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.