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Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7

You're reading from   Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7 A Service Oriented Architecture approach has many benefits for your applications, including flexibility, reusability, and increased revenue. You can exploit those benefits to the fullest by following this step-by-step tutorial for WPS and WESB.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847198280
Length 548 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Application Development for IBM WebSphere Process Server 7 and Enterprise Service Bus 7
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Introducing IBM BPM and ESB FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing the Development Environment 3. Building your Hello Process Project 4. Building Your Hello Mediation Project 5. Business Process Choreography Fundamentals 6. Mediations Fundamentals 7. Sales Fulfillment Application for JungleSea Inc. 8. Walk the Talk 9. Building the Order Handling Processes 10. Integration with Various Applications 11. Business Space 12. Deployment Topologies 13. Management, Monitoring, and Security WID, WPS, and WESB Tips, Tricks, and Pointers Index

Using rule groups and rules


Business rules help you abstract points of variability away from the implementation of the business process itself. Business rules are assembled into business rule groups in WID.

Business rules

Let's see some examples of business rules:

  • If the applicant is above the age of 25, but younger than 60, married, employed full time, and has a good credit rating, then the applied mortgage rate is 4.5 percent

  • If the customer has bought three shoes of the same brand under clearance, then the third pair is free

  • If the customer is shopping in Texas, then the applied sales tax is 8.25 percent

Business rules control the behavior of a business process. They tune the business process to handle a given specific set of circumstances more efficiently. Business rules provide business policies and guidelines that can be managed independent of the application. These business rules can be externalized away from a business process, hence making the business processes decoupled and agile when...

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