Short introduction to rule engines
Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Forward vs Backward chaining
Declarative vs procedure/oop
Comparison of solutions
When to use rule engines?
When not to use rule engines?
Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
Declarative vs Traditional Fact Model
Executing simple rules with simple tests
Authoring Assets
Decision tables
Rule Templates
Guided rule editor
Testing, limits and benefits
Developing simple process with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
Stateless vs Stateful sessions
Selecting proper facts
Basic operators and Drools specific operators)
Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
​Intermediate calculations
Inserting new facts
Exercises (lots of them)
Ordering rules with BPMN
Salience
Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
Executing ruleset from a process
Rules vs gateways
Short overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
Creating new languages
Preparing DSL to be used by manages
Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
Strategies for writing DSL from rules
Strategies for writing rules from DSL written by analysts
Unit testing
Test strategies (test per case or per rule)
Executing test automatically