Hello All:
I am trying
to figure
out if JBoss Rules will be suitable for my application
needs. Maybe
you can
give some insight.
My
application needs to
implement / use a rules engine for evaluating
conditions
and firing
off events when those conditions are met. So far this
sounds
exactly like the
sort of thing that JBoss Rules is for. The twist is
that my
application will
also provide an administrative utility that allows
admins to add
or remove
rules, as well as modify the conditions that trigger
these rules.
Can JBoss
Rules be used to do this? All of the examples I've
seen so far
seem to
incorporate rules whose consequences are fixes, but with
changeable
conditions.
For example, there are lots of samples out there
like an
insurance
application. Such an example has consequences such as
offerQuote,
turnDownCustomer etc. that don't change, but with conditions
that do
change. For
example, today offer quotes to all good drivers,
tomorrow
change the rule
to offer quotes to all good drivers over the age of
18. The
conditions
change, but the basic actions in the system are common.
What I think
my
requirement implies is a way to define rules with conditions
and the
corresponding
consequences code at runtime. This seems to imply
that the
application
code needs to be dynamic, in order to allow users to
define
arbitrary
consequence code. Has anyone ever tried to do something
this generic
with JBoss
Rules, and better, can you fill me in on how to go
about this?
Thanks, Robert