Course Outline
Overview of Rule Engines
- Brief history of Expert Systems and Rule Engines
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence
- Forward Chaining vs. Backward Chaining
- Declarative Approaches vs. Procedural/OOP
- Comparative Analysis of Solutions
- When to Utilize Rule Engines
- When to Avoid Rule Engines
- Alternative Solutions 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
- Insights into Repository Management (Git)
- Creating a Simple Process with Rules
Writing Rules in Eclipse
- Stateless vs. Stateful Sessions
- Selecting Appropriate Facts
- Basic Operators and Drools-Specific Operators
- Core Aggregate Functions (sum, max, etc.)
- Intermediate Calculations
- Inserting New Facts
- Exercises (Extensive Practice)
- Orchestrating Rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow vs. BPMN 2.0
- Executing a Ruleset from a Process
- Rules vs. Gateways
- Quick Overview of BPMN 2.0 Features (Transactions, Exception Handling)
- Implementing Comprehensive Declarative Business Logic in Drools
- Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating Custom Languages
- Preparing DSL for Managed Use
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Fusion (CPE) and Temporal Reasoning (for sequences such as after, between, etc.)
- Fusion Operators
- Example: Event Schedules
- Unit Testing
Optional Topics
- OptaPlanner
- jBPM
- Integrating Drools via Web Services
- Integrating Drools via Command Line
- Modifying Rules/Processes Post-Deployment Without Compilation
Requirements
Strong 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.
