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
It's nice that there is a prepared document for step-by-step instructions on how to do things so that we will not be lost, and also for future reference.
Thakral One Inc.
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.
I like that the steps were provided in the exercises that were given. It made it easier to be familiar with the steps so that we can do it without a guide in the future. The training environment is also good for beginners since Deba makes sure to answer any questions we have and assist us if we encounter any issues.
Thakral One Inc.
I liked the exercises the most. Sometimes, I don't get the value of each lecture at first, but I get immersed on doing the hands-on exercises with some notes became very helpful.
Thakral One Inc.
Hands-on exercises with corresponding written instruction really helps a lot.
Thakral One Inc.
The codes were explained line by line and in detail and shared with us. Very accommodating to all the questions.
Thakral One, Inc.
I am really impressed on his technical skills most especially on the debugging of errors and writing of codes. This just shows that he is really technically equip and is very good at that. But that is different from a skill of cascading and sharing your knowledge as a trainer.
Roi Jason Buela - Thakral One, Inc.
Learning how to troubleshoot and investigate encountered errors.
Thakral One, Inc.
His demonstrations, he demo from the scratch, which allows us to see the step by step process. As well as the practical examples, it was great, it looks like a real case scenario already.
Kim Justine Ferriol - Thakral One, Inc.
Shared examples of every function and/or operators are all well explained.