What's New in This Guide

This section summarizes the new features and significant product changes for the Oracle Rules Language in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Release 12c (12.1.3) release.

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Follow the pointers into this guide to get more information about the features and how to use them. This document is the new edition of the formerly titled Oracle Fusion Middleware Language Reference Guide for Oracle Business Rules.

For a list of known issues (release notes), see the “Known Issues for Oracle SOA Products and Oracle AIA Foundation Pack" at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/docs/soa-aiafp-knownissuesindex-364630.html

New and Changed Features for 12c (12.1.3)

Oracle Rules Language Release 12c (12.1.3) includes the following new and changed features:

  • Support for a new non-Rete Business Rules algorithm. See Rules Engine Algorithms.

  • Support for new built-in functions. See Built-in Functions.

    • isErrorInRuleConditionSuppressed

    • setErrorInRuleConditionSuppressed

    • getFactByType

    • isRulesetsOnStackOnce

    • setRulesetsOnStackOnce

  • Support for two new signatures for the Step function. See Built-in Functions.

  • Support for configuration parameters that can be set in a map passed to the RuleSession constructor. See Using a RuleSession.