New version of FlexRule Designer as our rule and decision authoring tool, has new advanced Decision Table editor. This new Decision Table editor has Import from Excel capability that allows you to start running and debugging your rules that are modeling in Excel. Also, in the latest version added signature of the decision table in […]
Writing an expression for a rule is very simple. There are some standard expressionss that can be used. When it comes to extending the expressions and evaluation engine, you have two different options: Passing a reference to an object and calling (invoking) its method Extend the expression by functions In this post, we are going […]
In the new release of FlexRule Designer (v4.1), we replaced the entire Decision Table screen. The new version of the Decision Table editor now is more user friendly and Importing capabilities are among the important new functions it provides. What that means is that your Business Analysts can simply use Excel to build the rules […]
Decision Table is one of the ways that allows business people to model a decision by modeling rules consisting of visual conditions and actions in a spreadsheet, just like a user interface (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Google Doc, etc.). These models are then executable by an engine and application that is developed by IT, or the […]
What you should look for when selecting your Business Rule Engine (BRE) Encapsulating a business domain in applications brings a lot of benefits. So in developing a complex application you may either find yourself developing a rule engine, or you buy a commercial one. Whether you buy or develop that component, it must have some […]
There are many ways to externalize your application logic, by means of which you can make your application more flexible. By making your application flexible, you allow the logic of your application to adapt to changes – with no code change – based on different circumstances outside of your application. Let’s say in your application […]
Multilingual Business Rule Messages are very important because the rule implementation must provide feedback to the user in the way they understand (i.e., in their own language and terminologies). Also, it is important in system development that the logic of the business rules is not compromised during language translation. If the logic is different for […]
Accessing external data by querying a database is a complex task that usually requires some coding by developers. For some complex and on-the-fly decision making it is necessary that rules are able to access external data (e.g., database) by querying without changing the rule application coding. There are some situations where all the data we […]
One of the main goals of the recent release was performance improvement. Usually improving speed is a very hard task. That is because there are lots of parameters involved. And the environmental parameters are always a challenge. Sometimes people think if you do not compile code or use a high-level language (e.g., XML) to define […]
