A Little Story From OpenRules Trenches
I’d like to share a little story from our recent consulting experience. Being in the midst of helping our client to deliver a large OpenRules-based banking system, we received an…
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OpenRules Test Harness
A new OpenRules Release 6.3.1 enhances its Test Harness with automatic comparison of expected and actual decision execution results.
OpenRules Sandbox
To simplify an evaluation of the OpenRules BDMS we’ve created an OpenRules Sandbox – see http://openrules.com/sandbox.htm. So, you do not have to download or install any software…
Building a Maintainable Product Catalogue with OpenRules Dialog
This year I will chair a workshop "CPSOLVERS-2013" at the major Constraint Programming conference "CP 2013". Preparing the workshop, we’ve decided to create an industrial overview…
Determine the Risk of Meeting a Werewolf
Today there was a post at the LinkedIn group "Looking for a simple example of representing calculations in a Decision Model" with this problem description:
Decision Execution Reports
OpenRules Release 6.2.3 adds an ability to generate decision execution reports in the HTML format. These reports help a rule designer to analyze which rules were actually executed…
How to compact large decision tables
A well-known problem with decision tables is that they frequently become too big and too difficult to manage. It is also well-known that OpenRules utilizes Excel-based decision…
Search and Replace in Multiple Excel Files with IceTeaReplacer
I believe that OpenRules users will find that a new free tool called "IceTeaReplacer" can be very useful for doing search&replace in OpenRules repositories. Here is a functional…
Deploying OpenRules Applications on Cloud
A week ago at JavaOne Conference in San Francisco I had a chance to talk directly with several providers of cloud deployment solutions for Java applications. I was really…
Customizing OpenRules Decisions
The new release 6.2.2 of OpenRules allows a user to customize decisions and decision runs, to create custom decision tables, and to incorporate decisions in web dialogs. Read more…
A stable gain in popularity
While I usually prefer to stay away from marketing discussions, I cannot help noticing that during these hard economical times open source business rules products gain in…
Dynamic Decision Glossaries
OpenRules decisions use business glossaries that are usually presented in Excel tables that may look like this table "glossary":