How to Build a Business Rules Engine

There is one other enormously important aspect that must be understood about

the Business Rules Repository. Rule definitions are not just relevant to business

rules engines. They are also critically important for many aspects of rules manage-

ment that have nothing to do with rule execution. This could include under-

standing what rules exist in an organization, who has responsibility for them, and

what policies or other governing documents they originated from. A repository is

required to meet these requirements, and the Business Rules Repository could be

a starting point for such a repository. However, a great deal of additional metadata

is also required, which is beyond the scope of what is needed for a business

rules engine. Such a repositor ...