Summary

Business Rules adoption is a very rewarding task once we get past the first learning curve. Once we reach a point where rule stakeholders have control over the rules used in their environment (and the tools to do so), the speed of development and deployment increases enormously. Also, Business Rules become an easy way to break down requirements and leave them registered in a traceable, understandable way. This helps intercommunication between technical groups and domain experts, thanks to this common language. No organization has ever regretted learning Drools, much less adopting it in their everyday activities.

We have learnt in this chapter about the many different tricks and tools to use Drools with common designs and architectures, and an introduction to the tools provided by the Kie Workbench and the Kie Server; we have also learned how to access them. It is up to the end user to determine the best way to make use of these components to link Drools to their existing enterprise...