Course Outline
Short Introduction to Rule Engines
- Artificial Intelligence
- Expert Systems
- What is a Rule Engine?
- Why use a Rule Engine?
- Advantages of a Rule Engine
- When should you use a Rule Engine?
- Scripting or Process Engines
- When you should NOT use a Rule Engine
- Strong and Loose Coupling
- What are rules?
Where things are
- Managing rules in a jar file
- Git repository
- Executing rules from KIE
- Managing BPMN and workflows files
- Moving knowledge files (rules, processes, forms, work times...)
Rules Testing
- Where to store test
- How to execute tests
- Testing with JUnit
Deployment Strategies
- standalone application
- Invoking rules from Java Code
- integration via files (json, xml, etc...)
- integration via web services
- using KIE for integration
Administration of rules
- authoring
- Packages
- Artifact Repository
- Asset Editor
- Validation
- Data Model
- Categories
- versioning
- Domain Specific Languages
- Optimizing hardware and software for rules execution
- Multithreading and Drools
Kie
- Projects structures
- Lifecycles
- Building
- Deploying
- Running
- Installation and Deployment Cheat Sheets
- Organization Units
- Users, Rules and Permissions
- Authentication
- Repositories
- Backup and Restore
- Logging
Requirements
Good understanding of Java Environment, Linux operating system. Git repository basics recommended, but not required.
Testimonials (5)
the Labs
Frank Mhlongo - Standard Bank of South Africa
Course - JBoss
the trainers skills about the topics and hes way to approach it after viewing our environment in screen share session.
Stig-Ole Amundsen - Helse Nord IKT
Course - WildFly Server Administration
The training definitely backfilled some of the gaps in my knowledge left by reading the OptaPlanner userguide. It gave me a good broad understanding of how to approach using OptaPlanner in our projects going forward.
Terry Strachan - Exel Computer Systems plc
Course - OptaPlanner in Practice
Shared examples of every function and/or operators are all well explained.
Brian Amlon - Thakral One, Inc.
Course - Introduction to Drools 7 for Developers
Exercises and solving problems in groups when the problems were more difficult.