Building Modern Business Applications: Reactive Cloud Architecture for Java, Spring, and PostgreSQL

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023

P. RoyalBuilding Modern Business Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8992-1_5

5. What Is a Business Rule?

Peter Royal¹  

(1)

Sherman Oaks, CA, USA

 

A business application is a source of truth for the business. In order to be effective at this task, data will need to conform to a structure. This will allow processes and workflows to be built around it. Categorically, the specification of a data’s structure, how it is modified, and what happens when it is changed are all considered business rules. At a given point in time, they will be specific. As the business changes, so will its rules. This chapter explores how I think about rules and how to classify ...