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