Course Outline
Brief introduction to rule engines
- Historical overview of Expert Systems and Rule Engines
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Forward chaining versus backward chaining
- Declarative programming versus procedural/OOP approaches
- Comparison of available solutions
- When to utilize rule engines
- When rule engines are not the right choice
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Authoring assets
- Integration with Workbench
- Executing rules directly from KIE
- Deployment procedures
- Decision tables
- Rule templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing methodologies
- Work items
- Versioning and deployment
- Insights into repository management (Git)
- Developing a simple process with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless versus stateful sessions
- Selecting appropriate facts
- Basic operators and Drools-specific operators
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc.)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (extensive practice)
- Ordering rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow versus BPMN 2.0
- Executing rule sets from a process
- Rules versus gateways
- Overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Implementing comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
- Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL for management use
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Fusion (CPE) and temporal reasoning (handling events occurring after, between, etc.)
- Fusion operators
- Example: Event Schedules
- Unit testing
Optional Topics
- OptaPlanner
- jBPM
- Drools integration via web services
- Drools integration via command line
- Updating rules/processes post-deployment without recompilation
Requirements
Programming proficiency in any language is strongly 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.
