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Oracle Business Rules

Oracle Business Rules Overview

True inference rules engine (based on Jess) Available and usable independent of Oracle SOA/BPM Tight integration with Oracle SOA/BPM Usually positioned and used as part of SOA/BPM

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Easier to use Date, Time, Effectivity Aggregates Decision Tables Dictionary Links, and many more Web based business user authoring
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Business Rules in SOA Composite

Different Usage Scenarios

Stand Alone

From Human Task From BPEL

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Tight Integration with BPEL

Create rule dictionary from within BPEL Leverage BPEL variables and project schemas Dictionary completely setup for writing rules i.e. facts created, etc.

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Date and Time Support

Rule Activation and Effective Dates Mark rules as active/in-active Specify periods when rule is effective Date and Time based rules Date comparisons Current Date

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Aggregates
Example: If an Order has more than 5 items with price > 1000, require manual approval Out-of-box aggregation functions: count, average, minimum, maximum, sum, collection Custom aggregation function

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Decision Tables

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Decision Tables

If CurrentDate.date = During Sale and CustomerOrder.vipStatus = Platinum or Silver and CustomerOrder.totalAmount >= 700 Then Discount = 15 and status = APPROVED

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Decision Tables

Set of Values or Ranges to compare with

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Decision Tables

List of Values or Ranges

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Decision Tables

Resolve overlap between R1 and R3 by overriding R3 with R1

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Decision Function
Simplifies exposing rules to be invoked as Decision Service or otherwise Sequence rulesets and functions declaratively Functions are especially useful in doing pre and post processing Asserts inputs and returns outputs Provides validations

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Rules Testing

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Many More Features

Dictionary Links Spread rules across dictionaries for reuse and access control Decision Functions Create rule flows

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Demonstration

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Q & A
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QUESTIONS ANSWERS

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