Course Outline
Short introduction to rule engines
- Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
- What is Artificial Intelligence?
- Forward vs Backward chaining
- Declarative vs procedure/oop
- Comparison of solutions
- When to use rule engines?
- When not to use rule engines?
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Declarative vs Traditional Fact Model
- Executing simple rules with simple tests
- Authoring Assets
- Decision tables
- Rule Templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing, limits and benefits
- Developing simple process with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless vs Stateful sessions
- Selecting proper facts
- Basic operators and Drools specific operators)
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (lots of them)
Ordering rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
- Executing ruleset from a process
- Rules vs gateways
- Short overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL to be used by manages
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Strategies for writing DSL from rules
- Strategies for writing rules from DSL written by analysts
Unit testing
- Test strategies (test per case or per rule)
- Executing test automatically
Requirements
Though not required, programming skills in any language strongly recommended (SQL, Java, C#, VBA, etc...)
Testimonials (5)
I really enjoyed the class with Reda, she is a very attentive person and open to any questions. He adapts to the needs of his client
Lamiae Hraira - Solidaris Brabant
Machine Translated
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.
Charles Kevin Regaliza - Thakral One Inc.
Course - Introduction to Drools 7 for Developers
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
I liked the positive and optimistic attitude. Gives good answers to questions.
Emil Krabbe Nielsen
Course - Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers
I really enjoyed the good atmosphere.