How to Build a Business Rules Engine

rules engine operates. Chapters 8 through 12 discuss how the repository can be imple-

mented and populated.

With the repository built, Chapters 13 and 14 deal with the requirement to define

new business information in a rules engine, and the techniques needed to manage

this information. New business rules often imply new business data, and a rules

engine must be able to implement new business data.

Chapters 15 through 20 deal with defining business rules and getting them to

execute. This is often regarded as the core functionality of a business rules engine,

but it cannot be implemented until the infrastructure described in the previous chap-

ters has been built. The final two chapters of the book deal with management issues

in the rules engine, such as ...