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
- Authoring Assets
- Workbench Integration
- Executing rules directly from KIE
- Deployment
- Decision tables
- Rule Templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing
- Work Items
- Versioning and deployment
- A bit more about repository (git)
- 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
- Fusion (CPE), temporal reasoning (for events to happen after, between, etc...)
- Fusion operators
- Example in Event Schedules
- Unit testing
Optional Topics
- OptaPlanner
- jBPM
- Drools and integration via web services
- Drools integration via command line
- How to change rules/process after deployment without compiling
Requirements
Programming skills in any language strongly recommended (SQL, Java, C#, VBA, etc...)
Testimonials
Flexibility and throrough explanations regarding the usage
Denis Kirchhübel
Maintaining speed with taking every one in the group along. Exercise oriented. Tried to cover as much as possible comfirtabliy.
Rakesh Prajapati
it met our expectations
Vadim Bilan
The exercises were great and the material is short and concise.
Anjali Sharma
Exercises in Eclipse
Anna Beluskova
Nice to see some other editors, other details around bpmn
Derek Doherty
Interactive trainer, helpful and had lots of suggestions for participants.
Liam Donovan
very well delivered
Damien Reid
Interactive approach, keeps the training interesting.
Elaine McCarthy
Nice Linux based training environment, a lot of examples and good web based documentation
Roberto Campesato - CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research
Lots of exercises, which were good and which were well-administered.