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Mastering JBoss Drools 6

By : Mariano De Maio, Mauricio Salatino, Esteban Aliverti
Book Image

Mastering JBoss Drools 6

By: Mariano De Maio, Mauricio Salatino, Esteban Aliverti

Overview of this book

Mastering JBoss Drools 6 will provide you with the knowledge to develop applications involving complex scenarios. You will learn how to use KIE modules to create and execute Business Rules, and how the PHREAK algorithm internally works to drive the Rule Engine decisions. This book will also cover the relationship between Drools and jBPM, which allows you to enrich your applications by using Business Processes. You will be briefly introduced to the concept of complex event processing (Drools CEP) where you will learn how to aggregate and correlate your data based on temporal conditions. You will also learn how to define rules using domain-specific languages, such as spreadsheets, database entries, PMML, and more. Towards the end, this book will take you through the integration of Drools with the Spring and Camel frameworks for more complex applications.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering JBoss Drools 6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Throughout this chapter, we've acquired a large amount of tools to write very powerful rules. Working memory manipulation, communication with outside of the rule engine through global variables, and control of the flow through groupings will come in handy for different aspects of each specific rule.

The next step is to get everything that we've defined so far working together. Rule engines provide an enormous amount of flexibility by taking care of all the optimizations from a code perspective. In a way, we're here to write all the rules, and let the engine sort them out.

In the next chapter, we will start tuning our runtime environment to control how the rules should be executed, what information is to be logged in, and the rest of the details that exceed rule definition and are related to rule runtime configuration.