Summary
We achieved a lot in this chapter – we went from talking about business rules as an abstract concept, to executing business rules using hands-on tools such as KIE Sandbox.
Along the way, we saw how Decision Models are another way to represent our business rules, and their highly visual format meant that we could quickly build two samples. We downloaded and ran KIE Sandbox Extended Services to evaluate our Decision Model and saw some of the different data types on which we can base our decisions.
We took a tour of the UI to understand how we can import and export decision models, and where to access previous models that KIE has autosaved for us. We also saw some of the other views of Decision Models, which are especially useful when sharing them with colleagues for validation.
However, there were several key points in the chapter where we understood Decision Models, rule engines, and the FEEL expression language are much more powerful than we’ve previously...
