Course Outline
Short introduction to rule engines
- A brief history of Expert Systems and Rules Engines
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Forward vs Backward chaining
- Declarative vs procedural/OOP
- Comparing different 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
- An overview of the repository (Git)
- Developing simple processes with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless vs Stateful sessions
- Selecting appropriate facts
- Basic and Drools-specific operators
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc.)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Hands-on exercises (plenty of them)
- Ordering rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
- Executing rulesets from a process
- Rules vs gateways
- An overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
- Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL for managerial use
- 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 integration via web services
- Drools integration via command line
- Modifying rules/processes post-deployment without recompiling
Requirements
Programming proficiency in any language is highly recommended (e.g., SQL, Java, C#, VBA, etc.).
Testimonials (4)
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 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.
Course - Introduction to Drools 7 for Developers
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.
Course - Introduction to Drools 7 for Developers
Shared examples of every function and/or operators are all well explained.
