Course Outline

Short introduction to rule engines

  1. Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
  2. What is Artificial Intelligence?
  3. Forward vs Backward chaining
  4. Declarative vs procedure/oop
  5. Comparison of solutions
  6. When to use rule engines?
  7. When not to use rule engines?
  8. Alternatives to rule engines

KIE

  1. Authoring Assets
  2. Workbench Integration
    • Executing rules directly from KIE
    • Deployment
  3. Decision tables
  4. Rule Templates
  5. Guided rule editor
  6. Testing
  7. Work Items
  8. Versioning and deployment
  9. A bit more about repository (git)
  10. Developing simple process with rules

Writing rules in Eclipse

  1. Stateless vs Stateful sessions
  2. Selecting proper facts
    • Basic operators and Drools specific operators
    • Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
    • ​Intermediate calculations
  3. Inserting new facts
  4. Exercises (lots of them)
  5. 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
  6. Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
    • Creating new languages
    • Preparing DSL to be used by manages
    • Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
  7. Fusion (CPE), temporal reasoning (for events to happen after, between, etc...)
    • Fusion operators
    • Example in Event Schedules
  8. Unit testing

Optional Topics

  1. OptaPlanner
  2. jBPM
  3. Drools and integration via web services
  4. Drools integration via command line
  5. How to change rules/process after deployment without compiling

Requirements

Programming skills in any language strongly recommended (SQL, Java, C#, VBA, etc...)
  21 Hours
 

Need help picking the right course?
Call us +971 4871 6715

Testimonials

Lots of exercises, which were good and which were well-administered.

Joseph Richardson

Nice Linux based training environment, a lot of examples and good web based documentation.

Roberto Campesato - CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research

I liked the interactive approach, keeps the training interesting.

Elaine McCarthy

Very well delivered.

Damien Reid

Interactive trainer, helpful and had lots of suggestions for participants.

Liam Donovan

It was nice to see some other editors, other details around bpmn.

Derek Doherty

I really was benefit from the exercises in Eclipse.

Anna Beluskova

I generally enjoyed the exercises.

Merin Tony

The exercises were great and the material is short and concise.

Anjali Sharma

It met our expectations.

Vadim Bilan

Maintaining speed with taking every one in the group along. Exercise oriented. Tried to cover as much as possible comfortably.

Rakesh Prajapati

I was benefit from the flexibility and thorough explanations regarding the usage.

Denis Kirchhübel

I liked the positive and optimistic attitude. Gives good answers to questions.

Emil Krabbe Nielsen

Related Courses

HTTP Web Server (Nginx, Apache, JBoss)

 28 hours

Business Rule Management (BRMS) with Drools

 7 hours

This course is aimed at enterprise architects, business and system analysts and managers who want to apply business rules to their solution. With Drools, you can write your business rules using almost natural language, therefore reducing the gap

Drools 7 and DSL for Business Analysts

 21 hours

This 3 days course is aimed to introduce Drools 7 to Business Analysts responsible for writing tests and rules. This course focuses on creating pure logic. Analysts after this course can writing tests and logic which then can be further

Introduction to Drools 7 for Developers

 21 hours

This 3 days course is aimed to introduce Drools 7 to developers.This course doesn't cover drools integration, performance or any other complex topics.

Drools 6 and DSL for Business Analysts

 21 hours

This 3 days course is aimed to introduce Drools 6 to Business Analysts responsible for writing tests and rules. This course focuses on creating pure logic. Analysts after this course can writing tests and logic which then can be further

Drools Rules Administration

 21 hours

This course has been prepared for people who are involved in administering corporate knowledge assets (rules, process) like system administrators, system integrators, application server administrators, etc... We are using the newest stable community

Infinispan

 28 hours

Infinispan is a distributed cache and key-value NoSQL data store software developed by Red Hat.

Enterprise Java Programming with Java EE and JBoss (EJB 3.0)

 28 hours

This 4-day course is for programmers who already know the Java language and wish to exploit the Enterprise Java Beans 2.0 technology while becoming aware of the security implications of distributing applications. This course has a large practical

JBoss

 14 hours

JBoss Application Server (JBoss AS) is an open-source, Java application server developed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat Inc.

Undertow: Embed a Web Server into Your Application

 7 hours

Undertow is a lightweight web server written in Java. It is used by JBoss's WilfFly internally and is popular as an embedded web server for JVM-based applications. In this course, participants will learn how to set up an Undertow web server

WildFly Server Administration

 14 hours

This course is created for Administrators, Developers or anyone who is interested in managing WildFly Application Server (AKA JBoss Application Server). This course usually runs on the newest version of the Application Server, but it can be