More Decision Models, Business Rules, and Decision Tables
In the previous chapter, we wrote our first business rule using Decision Models in the KIE Sandbox. While it gave a friendly greeting, that business rule wasn’t very powerful. This chapter will explore other features of KIE to write more powerful business rules that solve more real-life problems.
Along the way, we’ll explore different formats for storing information. We’ll use the tools in KIE Sandbox to model these formats, making it a lot easier to understand the data we’re working with. We’ll create our first Decision Table and see how these are a very powerful way of expressing business rules. We’ll explore other node types to help us process information and help prepare it for the decision tables. Finally, we’ll combine all of these node types to create a very powerful decision-making example.
Our aim is to capture our business decision-making processes to provide a...