Drools Administration

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