How to Build a Business Rules Engine

They typically know little of the underlying business and tend to want to solve prob-

lems by introducing new procedural code.

Some older software applications that claim to have rules engine functionality

require programmers to actually write new blocks of code to implement the rules.

These applications have some degree of flexibility, but they can hardly be considered

as rules engines. Having programmers involved in this way defeats many of the goals

of using a rules engine.

One of the big advantages of building a business rules engine is to avoid having

programmers involved when new rules are to be defined. Anyone building a rules

engine should be careful not to depend on programmers during rule definition.

When Are Rules Defined?

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