Introduction
Business rules focus on decision making and policies. Business rules can be included in cases where you need dynamic processing, Human Task routing, data validations, and so on. A Decision component, also called a Business rule service component, supports the use of Oracle Business rules in an SOA composite application.
Business rules are statements that describe business policies or key business decisions. For example, computations such as discounts or premiums, or say a business rule for a car rental company might specify that if the driver's age is less than twenty-one, the application must be denied. Business rules can perform calculations, such as calculating a credit score, and they can result in changes to the flow by setting values that determine how the process branches.
Rules follow either an IF/THEN structure or can be expressed in a spreadsheet-like format called Decision Tables. You write rules and Decision Tables in terms of fact types and properties. Fact types...
