How to Build a Business Rules Engine

I like to say business rules are inevitable. Every organization has them—thousands

of them—and every organization needs to be able to manage them far better today.

I believe it’s no exaggeration to say that many organizations’ very survival depends

on it.

In this book, Malcolm Chisholm makes an important contribution to the busi-

ness rule movement. His is a very practical approach that blends best practices of the

database field with new techniques based on rules. It’s an approach that I can relate

to well because my own work with business rules shares much of the same origin and

trajectory.

To many in the IT world, especially those whose technical coming of age, started

with object orientation and/or web services, the notion that rules should be ...