Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documentation
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide

1 Overview of Oracle Business Rules

• 1.1 Introduction to Oracle Business Rules
  • 1.1.1 Why Use Oracle Business Rules?
  • 1.1.2 Understanding Oracle Business Rules Terminology
    • 1.1.2.1 What Are Facts and Valuesets?
    • 1.1.2.2 What Are Rulesets?
    • 1.1.2.3 What Are Dictionaries?
    • 1.1.2.4 What Are Globals?
    • 1.1.2.5 What Are Decision Functions?
    • 1.1.2.6 What Are Decision Points?
    • 1.1.2.7 What Are Business Phrases?
• 1.2 Understanding Oracle Business Rules Formats
  • 1.2.1 Rules
    • 1.2.1.1 What Are Rule Conditions?
    • 1.2.1.2 What Are Rule Actions?
    • 1.2.1.3 How are Verbal Rules Different from General Rules?
  • 1.2.2 Decision Tables
• 1.3 Oracle Business Rules Runtime and Design Time Elements
  • 1.3.1 Decision Component (Business Rules) in a SOA Composite Application
  • 1.3.2 Using Rules Engine with Oracle Business Rules in a Java EE Application
  • 1.3.3 Oracle Business Rules RL Language
  • 1.3.4 Oracle Business Rules SDK
  • 1.3.5 Rules Designer
  • 1.3.6 Oracle SOA Composer Application
  • 1.3.7 Oracle Business Process Composer Application
• 1.4 Oracle Business Rules Engine Architecture
  • 1.4.1 Declarative Rules
  • 1.4.2 The Rete Algorithm
  • 1.4.3 The Non-Rete Algorithm
    • 1.4.3.1 Configuring the Non-Rete Algorithm
  • 1.4.4 What Is Working Memory?
  • 1.4.5 Rule Firing and Rule Sessions

2 Working with Data Model Elements

• 2.1 Introduction to Working with Data Model Elements
• 2.2 Introduction to Dictionaries and Dictionary Links
  • 2.2.1 Working with Dictionaries and Dictionary Links
  • 2.2.2 How to Create a Dictionary in the SOA Tier Using Rules Designer
  • 2.2.3 How to Create a Dictionary in the Business Tier Using Rules Designer
  • 2.2.4 How to View and Edit Dictionary Settings
    • 2.2.4.1 How to Change the Dictionary Alias
    • 2.2.4.2 How to Edit the Preferences tab
    • 2.2.4.3 How to Edit the Data Model tab
  • 2.2.5 How to Link to a Dictionary
  • 2.2.6 How to Update a Linked Dictionary
  • 2.2.7 What You Need to Know About Dictionary Linking
  • 2.2.8 What You Need to Know About Dictionary Linking and Dictionary Copies
  • 2.2.9 What You Need to Know About Dictionary Linking to a Deployed Dictionary
  • 2.2.10 What You Need to Know About Business Rules Inputs and Outputs with BPEL
  • 2.2.11 How to Compare or Merge Two or More Dictionaries
    • 2.2.11.1 How to See Differences Between Dictionaries
    • 2.2.11.2 How to Merge Dictionaries
• 2.3 Working with Oracle Business Rules Globals
  • 2.3.1 How to Add Oracle Business Rules Globals
  • 2.3.2 How to Edit Oracle Business Rules Globals
  • 2.3.3 What You Need to Know About the Final and Constant Options
• 2.4 Working with Decision Functions
• 2.5 Introduction to Oracle Business Rules Functions
  • 2.5.1 How to Add an Oracle Business Rules Function
• 2.6 Localizing Oracle Business Rule Resources
  • 2.6.1 How to Localize the Resources in Oracle Business Rules

3 Working with Facts and Value Sets

• 3.1 Introduction to Working with Facts and Value Sets
• 3.2 Working with XML Facts
  • 3.2.1 How to Create XML fact types
  • 3.2.2 How to Import the XML Schema and Add XML Facts
  • 3.2.3 How to Display and Edit XML Facts
  • 3.2.4 How to Reload XML Facts with Updated Schema
  • 3.2.5 What You Need to Know About XML Facts
• 3.3 Working with Java Facts
  • 3.3.1 How to Import Java Classes and Define Java Facts
  • 3.3.2 How to Display and Edit Java Facts
  • 3.3.3 What You Need to Know About Java Facts
• 3.4 Working with RL Facts
  • 3.4.1 How to Define RL Facts
  • 3.4.2 How to Display and Edit RL Facts and Add RL Fact Properties
  • 3.4.3 What You Need to Know About RL Facts
• 3.5 Working with ADF Business Components Facts
  • 3.5.1 How to Import and Define ADF Business Components Facts
  • 3.5.2 What You Need to Know About ADF Business Components Fact Classpaths
  • 3.5.3 What You Need to Know About ADF Business Components Circular References
  • 3.5.4 What You Need to Know About ADF Business Components Facts
• 3.6 Working with Value Sets
  • 3.6.1 How to Define a List of Values Global Value Set
  • 3.6.2 How to Define a List of Ranges Global Value Set
  • 3.6.3 How to Define an Enumerated Type (Enum) Value Set from XML Types
  • 3.6.4 How to Define an Enumerated Type (Enum) Value Set from Java Types
  • 3.6.5 What You Need to Know About List of Values Value Sets
  • 3.6.6 What You Need to Know About Range Value Sets
  • 3.6.7 What You Need to Know About the Value Set Allowed in Actions Option
  • 3.6.8 What You Need to Know About Values
• 3.7 Associating a Value Set with Business Terms
  • 3.7.1 How to Associate a Value Set with a Fact Property
  • 3.7.2 How to Associate a Value Set with Functions or Function Arguments
    • 3.7.2.1 How to Associate a Value Set with a Function Argument
  • 3.7.3 How to Associate a Value Set with a Global Value

4 Working with Rulesets and Rules

• 4.1 Introduction to Working with Rulesets, Rules, and Business Phrases
• 4.2 Working with Rulesets
  • 4.2.1 How to Create a Ruleset
  • 4.2.2 How to Set the Effective Date for a Rule Set
  • 4.2.3 How to Set the Effective Date for a Rule
  • 4.2.4 How to Use a Filter to Display Matching Rules in a Ruleset
  • 4.2.5 Using Auto Complete when Selecting Component Values from a List
• 4.3 Working with Rules
  • 4.3.1 How to Add General Rules
  • 4.3.2 How to Add Verbal Rules
  • 4.3.3 How to Define a Test in a Rule
  • 4.3.4 How to Define a Test in a Verbal Rule
  • 4.3.5 What You Need to Know About Oracle Business Rules Test Variables
  • 4.3.6 How to Define Range Tests in Rules
  • 4.3.7 How to Define Set Tests in Rules
  • 4.3.8 How to Define an Action in a General Rule
    • 4.3.8.1 Basic Actions in a General Rule
  • 4.3.9 How to Define an Action in a Verbal Rule
  • 4.3.10 What You Need to Know About Rule Actions
  • 4.3.11 What You Need to Know About Oracle Business Rules Performance Tuning
• 4.4 Introduction to Verbal Rules and Business Phrases
  • 4.4.1 Working with Business Phrases
    • 4.4.1.1 Business Phrases Tab
    • 4.4.1.2 Draft Business Phrases and Verbal Rules
  • 4.4.2 How to Create Business Phrases
    • 4.4.2.1 Example Business Phrase Creation Scenario
    • 4.4.2.2 Translating Business Phrases
  • 4.4.3 Choosing or Adding Business Phrases in Verbal Rules
    • 4.4.3.1 Instantiating New Business Phrases While Authoring a Verbal Rule
    • 4.4.3.2 Choosing Business Phrases While Creating a Verbal Rule
    • 4.4.3.3 Derived Business Phrases
    • 4.4.3.4 Choosing Which Business Phrases to See in the List
• 4.5 Validating Dictionaries
  • 4.5.1 Understanding Data Model Validation
  • 4.5.2 Understanding Rule Validation
  • 4.5.3 Understanding Decision Table Validation
  • 4.5.4 How to Validate a Dictionary
• 4.6 Using Advanced Settings with Rules and Decision Tables
  • 4.6.1 How to Show and Hide Advanced Settings in a Rule or Decision Table
  • 4.6.2 How to Select the Advanced Mode Option
  • 4.6.3 How to Select the Active Option
  • 4.6.4 How to Select the Logical Option
  • 4.6.5 How to Set a Priority for a Rule
  • 4.6.6 How to Specify Effective Dates
• 4.7 Working with Nested Tests
• 4.8 Working with Advanced Mode Rules
  • 4.8.1 How to Use Advanced Mode Pattern Matching Options
  • 4.8.2 How to Use Advanced Mode Matched Fact Naming
  • 4.8.3 How to Use Advanced Mode Action Forms
    • 4.8.3.1 Advanced Mode Action Options in Rule Designer
  • 4.8.4 How to Use Advanced Mode Aggregate Conditions
    • 4.8.4.1 Using Aggregate Functions
  • 4.8.5 What You Need to Know About Advanced Mode Rules
    • 4.8.5.1 How to Clear Advanced Mode Option
• 4.9 Working with Extended Tests
  • 4.9.1 Extended Test Forms
• 4.10 Working with Tree Mode Rules
  • 4.10.1 Sample Abbreviated PO XML Instance
  • 4.10.2 Understanding Tree Mode Rules (Non-Advanced Mode)
  • 4.10.3 Understanding Advanced Tree Mode Rules
  • 4.10.4 How to Create Simple Tree Mode Rules
  • 4.10.5 How to Create Advanced Tree Mode Rules
  • 4.10.6 What You Need to Know About Tree Mode Rules
• 4.11 Using Date Facts, Date Functions, and Specifying Effective Dates
  • 4.11.1 How to Use the Current Date Fact
  • 4.11.2 What You Need to Know About Effective Dates
  • 4.11.3 How to Use Duration, JavaDate, OracleDate, and XMLDate Methods
• 4.12 Introduction to Expression Builder
  • 4.12.1 How to Use the Expression Builder
  • 4.12.2 What You Need to Know About Working with Expressions
• 4.13 Using Value Sets as Constraints for Options Values in Rules
  • 4.13.1 How to Use a List of Ranges Value Set as a Constraint for a Business Term
  • 4.13.2 How to Use a List of Values Value Set as a Constraint for a Fact Property
  • 4.13.3 How to Use Value Sets to Provide Options for Test Expressions
• 4.14 Importing Runtime Rules Changes From Repository Into JDeveloper
• 4.15 How to Model Rules When the Data Model is Deep

5 Working with Decision Tables

• 5.1 Introduction to Working with Decision Tables
  • 5.1.1 What is a Decision Table?
    • 5.1.1.1 What You Need to Know About Decision Table Conditions
    • 5.1.1.2 What You Need to Know About Decision Table Actions
    • 5.1.1.3 What You Need to Know About Decision Table Rules
  • 5.1.2 Understanding Condition Cell Values
  • 5.1.3 Understanding Action Cell Values
  • 5.1.4 What You Need to Know About Decision Table Loops
• 5.2 Creating Decision Tables
  • 5.2.1 How to Create a Decision Table
  • 5.2.2 How to Add Condition Rows to a Decision Table
  • 5.2.3 How to Use or Specify the Value Set for a Decision Table Condition
  • 5.2.4 How to Add Actions to a Decision Table
    • 5.2.4.1 How to Set Values for Action Cells in a Decision Table
    • 5.2.4.2 How to Deselect an Action Cell in a Decision Table
  • 5.2.5 How to Add a Rule to a Decision Table
  • 5.2.6 How to Define Tests in a Decision Table
• 5.3 Introduction to Decision Table Operations
  • 5.3.1 Understanding Decision Table Split and Compact Operations
    • 5.3.1.1 Understanding Decision Table Move Operations
    • 5.3.1.2 Understanding Decision Table Gap Checking
    • 5.3.1.3 Understanding Decision Table Conflict Analysis
  • 5.3.2 How to Compact or Split a Decision Table
  • 5.3.3 How to Merge or Split Conditions in a Decision Table
  • 5.3.4 How to Use the Condition Cell Operations
    • 5.3.4.1 How to Merge Sibling Cells in a Condition in a Decision Table
    • 5.3.4.2 How to Split a Cell in a Condition in a Decision Table
    • 5.3.4.3 How to a "Do Not Care" Value for a Cell in a Condition in a Decision Table
    • 5.3.4.4 How to Select all Value Sets to Specify a "Do Not Care" Value for a Cell in a Condition:
  • 5.3.5 How to Perform Decision Table Gap Checking
  • 5.3.6 How to Perform Decision Table Manual Conflict Resolution
  • 5.3.7 How to Set the Decision Table Auto Override Conflict Resolution Policy
  • 5.3.8 How to Set the Decision Table Ignore Conflicts Policy
• 5.4 Creating and Running an Oracle Business Rules Decision Table Application
  • 5.4.1 How to Obtain the Source Files for the Order Approval Application
  • 5.4.2 How to Create an Application for Order Approval
  • 5.4.3 How to Create a Business Rule Service Component for Order Approval
  • 5.4.4 How to View Data Model Elements for Order Approval
  • 5.4.5 How to Add Value Sets to the Data Model for Order Approval
    • 5.4.5.1 How to Add CreditScore Value Set to the Data Model
  • 5.4.6 How to Associate Value Sets with Order and CreditScore Properties
  • 5.4.7 How to Add a Decision Table for Order Approval
    • 5.4.7.1 How to Create an action in a Decision Table
    • 5.4.7.2 Split the Cells in the Decision Table and Add Actions
    • 5.4.7.3 How to Add Actions for Each Rule in the Decision Table
    • 5.4.7.4 Compact the Decision Table
    • 5.4.7.5 Replace Several Specific Rules with One General Rule
    • 5.4.7.6 Add a General Rule
    • 5.4.7.7 How to Enable the Auto Override Conflict Resolution Policy
  • 5.4.8 How to Check the Business Rule Validation Log for Order Approval
  • 5.4.9 How to Deploy the Order Approval Application
  • 5.4.10 How to Test the Order Approval Application
• 5.5 Editing Decision Tables in Microsoft Excel
  • 5.5.1 Understanding What is Exported
  • 5.5.2 How to Export Decision Tables
  • 5.5.3 How to Import Edited Decision Tables Back to the Dictionary
  • 5.5.4 How to Edit Decision Tables in Excel
    • 5.5.4.1 Adding or Deleting Rules and Merging or Splitting Cells
    • 5.5.4.2 Adding or Removing Value Sets
    • 5.5.4.3 Showing or Hiding Value Sets and Editing the Description
    • 5.5.4.4 Setting Preferences
    • 5.5.4.5 Using Simple or Advanced Mode
    • 5.5.4.6 Hiding or Showing the Readme Worksheet
    • 5.5.4.7 Editing Condition Cells
    • 5.5.4.8 Editing Actions
    • 5.5.4.9 Editing Expressions
    • 5.5.4.10 Editing Action Expression Parameters
    • 5.5.4.11 Editing Descriptions
    • 5.5.4.12 Using the Auto-Addition Feature
    • 5.5.4.13 Aliases of Values in the Value Sets Worksheet
    • 5.5.4.14 Syncing Value Sets and Conditions

6 Working with Decision Functions

• 6.1 Introduction to Decision Functions
• 6.2 Working with Decision Functions
  • 6.2.1 How to Edit an Existing Decision Function
  • 6.2.2 How to Change the Order of Inputs
  • 6.2.3 How to Change the Order of Outputs
  • 6.2.4 How to Edit a Decision Function
• 6.3 What You Need to Know About Rule Firing Limit Option for Debugging Rules
• 6.4 What You Need to Know to About Decision Function Arguments
• 6.5 What You Need to Know About the Decision Function Stateless Option

7 Testing and Validating Business Rules

• 7.1 Overview
  • 7.1.1 Components of the Test Feature
• 7.2 Testing Rules in JDeveloper
  • 7.2.1 How to Create and Manage Test Suites and Cases
  • 7.2.2 How to Create Test Templates
  • 7.2.3 How to Run Test Suites or Cases
  • 7.2.4 How to Run Ad-hoc Tests from Test Templates
  • 7.2.5 How to Run Tests for a Specific Decision Function
• 7.3 Testing Rules in Business Process Composer
• 7.4 Testing Rules in SOA Composer
  • 7.4.1 How to Create and Manage Test Suites and Cases
  • 7.4.2 How to Create Test Templates
  • 7.4.3 How to Run Test Suites or Cases
  • 7.4.4 How to Run Ad-hoc Tests from Test Templates
  • 7.4.5 How to Run Tests for a Specific Decision Function
• 7.5 Testing Decision Functions Using a Rules Function
  • 7.5.1 What You Need to Know About Testing Decision Functions
• 7.6 Testing Decision Services in SOA Composites

8 Working with Rules in Standalone (Non SOA/BPM) Scenarios

• 8.1 Loading a Dictionary from the Repository
• 8.2 Executing a Rule Dictionary
• 8.3 Introduction to the Rules SDK Decision Point API
  • 8.3.1 Working with Decision Point API
  • 8.3.2 How to Obtain the Car Rental Sample Application
  • 8.3.3 How to Open the Car Rental Sample Application and Project
• 8.4 Creating a Dictionary for Use with a Decision Point
  • 8.4.1 How to Create Data Model Elements for Use with a Decision Point
  • 8.4.2 How to View a Decision Function to Call from the Decision Point
  • 8.4.3 How to Create Rules or Decision Tables for the Decision Function
  • 8.4.4 What You Need to Know About Using Car Rental Sample with a Decision Table
• 8.5 Creating a Java Application Using Rules SDK Decision Point
  • 8.5.1 How to Add a Decision Point Using Decision Point Builder
  • 8.5.2 How to Use a Decision Point with a Pre-loaded Dictionary
  • 8.5.3 How to Use Executor Service to Run Threads with Decision Point
  • 8.5.4 How to Create and Use Decision Point Instances
    • 8.5.4.1 Sample Code to Create a Decision Point Instance with getInstance()
• 8.6 Running the Car Rental Sample
  • 8.6.1 Sample Output from Car Rental
• 8.7 What You Need to Know About Using Decision Point in a Production Environment
• 8.8 What You Need to Know About Decision Point and Decision Tracing
  • 8.8.1 Sample Usage of Decision Tracing

9 Creating a Rule-enabled Non-SOA Java EE Application

• 9.1 Introduction to the Grades Sample Application
• 9.2 Creating an Application and a Project for Grades Sample Application
  • 9.2.1 How to Create a Fusion Web Application for the Grades Sample Application
  • 9.2.2 How to Develop Accessible ADF Faces Pages
  • 9.2.3 How to Create the Grades Project
  • 9.2.4 How to Add the XML Schema and Generate JAXB Classes in the Grades Project
    • 9.2.4.1 How to generate JAXB 2.0 content model from grades schema
  • 9.2.5 How to Create an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary in the Grades Project
• 9.3 Creating Data Model Elements and Rules for the Grades Sample Application
  • 9.3.1 How to Create Value Sets for Grades Sample Application
  • 9.3.2 How to Associate a Value Set with a Fact Property
  • 9.3.3 How to Add a Decision Table for Grades Sample Application
  • 9.3.4 How to Add an Action to a Decision Table
  • 9.3.5 How to Add Rules in the Decision Table for Grades Sample Application
  • 9.3.6 How to Rename the Decision Function for Grades Sample Application
• 9.4 Adding a Servlet with Rules SDK Calls for Grades Sample Application
  • 9.4.1 How to Add a Servlet to the Grades Project
• 9.5 Adding an HTML Test Page for Grades Sample Application
• 9.6 Preparing the Grades Sample Application for Deployment
  • 9.6.1 How to Create the WAR File for the Grades Sample Application
  • 9.6.2 How to Add the Rules Library to the Grades Sample Application
  • 9.6.3 How to Add the MDS Deployment File to the Grades Sample Application
  • 9.6.4 How to Add the EAR File to the Grades Sample Application
• 9.7 Deploying and Running the Grades Sample Application
  • 9.7.1 How to Deploy to Grades Sample Application
  • 9.7.2 How to Run the Grades Sample Application

10 Working with Oracle Business Rules and ADF Business Components

• 10.1 Introduction to Using Business Rules with ADF Business Components
  • 10.1.1 Understanding Oracle Business Rules ADF Business Components Fact Types
  • 10.1.2 Understanding Oracle Business Rules Decision Point Action Type
    • 10.1.2.1 Sample ActionType Implementation
• 10.2 Using Decision Points with ADF Business Components Facts
  • 10.2.1 How to Call a Decision Point with ADF Business Components Facts
    • 10.2.1.1 Setting the Decision Point Transaction
    • 10.2.1.2 Setting Runtime Properties
    • 10.2.1.3 Calling the Invoke Method for an ADF Business Components Rule
    • 10.2.1.4 What You Need to Know About Decision Point Invocation
    • 10.2.1.5 Sample to Invoke a Decision Point Using setinputs Method
    • 10.2.1.6 Sample to Invoke a Decision Point Using setViewObject Method
  • 10.2.2 How to Call a Decision Function with Java Decision Point Interface
  • 10.2.3 What You Need to Know About Decision Function Configuration with ADF Business Components
• 10.3 Creating a Business Rules Application with ADF Business Components Facts
  • 10.3.1 How to Create an Application That Uses ADF Business Components Facts
  • 10.3.2 How to Create ADF Business Components Application for Business Rules
  • 10.3.3 How to Update View Object Tuning for Business Rules Sample Application
  • 10.3.4 How to Create a Dictionary for Oracle Business Rules
  • 10.3.5 How to Add Decision Point Dictionary Links
  • 10.3.6 How to Import the ADF Business Components Facts
    • 10.3.6.1 How to Mark a Property as Non-visible
    • 10.3.6.2 How to Set Alias for DepartmentsView and EmployeesView
  • 10.3.7 How to Add and Run the Outside Manager Ruleset
    • 10.3.7.1 How to Add the Outside Manager Ruleset and Add a Decision Function
    • 10.3.7.2 How to Create the ActionType Java Implementation Class
    • 10.3.7.3 How to Import the Message Action Java Fact
    • 10.3.7.4 How to Add the Find Managers Rule
    • 10.3.7.5 How to Add the Outside Manager Finder Class
    • 10.3.7.6 How to Update ADF META INF for Local Dictionary Access
    • 10.3.7.7 How to Copy Definitions/Dictionary to MDS Accessible Location
    • 10.3.7.8 How to Build and Run the Project to Check the Outside Manager Finder
  • 10.3.8 How to Add and Run the Department Manager Ruleset
    • 10.3.8.1 How to Add the Department Manager Finder Ruleset
    • 10.3.8.2 How to Add the Find Rule in the Department Manager Finder Ruleset
    • 10.3.8.3 How to Add Retract Employees Ruleset
    • 10.3.8.4 How to Add the Find Department Managers Decision Function
    • 10.3.8.5 How to Add the Department Manager Finder Java Class
    • 10.3.8.6 How to Copy the Dictionary to an MDS Accessible Location
    • 10.3.8.7 How to Build and Run the Project to Check the Find Managers Rule
  • 10.3.9 How to Add and Run the Raises and Retract Employees Rulesets
    • 10.3.9.1 How to Add the Raises Ruleset
    • 10.3.9.2 How to Create the Raise ActionType Java Implementation Class
    • 10.3.9.3 How to Import the Raise Action Java Fact
    • 10.3.9.4 How to Add the 12 Year Raise Rule
    • 10.3.9.5 How to Add the Employee Raises Decision Function
    • 10.3.9.6 How to Add the Employee Raises Java Class
    • 10.3.9.7 How to Copy Dictionary to MDS Accessible Location
    • 10.3.9.8 How to Build and Run the Project to Check the Raises Rule

11 Working with Decision Components in SOA Applications

• 11.1 Introduction to Decision Components
• 11.2 Working with a Decision Component
  • 11.2.1 Working with Decision Component Metadata
  • 11.2.2 Working with Decision Components that Expose a Decision Function
  • 11.2.3 Using Stateful Interactions with a Decision Component
  • 11.2.4 What You Need to Know About Stateful Interactions with Decision Components
• 11.3 Decision Service Architecture

12 Using Oracle SOA Composer with Oracle Business Rules at Runtime

• 12.1 Introduction to Oracle SOA Composer
  • 12.1.1 Creating and Publishing Sessions
    • 12.1.1.1 Publishing Changes for an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary
    • 12.1.1.2 Creating a Bookmark
    • 12.1.1.3 Reviewing Dictionary Settings
  • 12.1.2 Using Oracle SOA Composer User Authentication
  • 12.1.3 What You Need to Know About SOA Composer Access Control and User Authentication
• 12.2 Setting Accessibility Options
  • 12.2.1 How to Set Accessibility Features Before Logging In
  • 12.2.2 How to Set Accessibility Options After Logging In
• 12.3 Opening and Viewing an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary
  • 12.3.1 How to View and Edit Rulesets
    • 12.3.1.1 How to Add Verbal Rules in SOA Composer
  • 12.3.2 How to View and Edit Value Sets
  • 12.3.3 How to View and Edit Globals
  • 12.3.4 How to View and Edit Business Phrases
  • 12.3.5 How to View and Edit Tests
  • 12.3.6 How to View Explorer
  • 12.3.7 How to View and Edit Facts
  • 12.3.8 How to View Decision Functions
  • 12.3.9 How to View Linked Dictionary Names
  • 12.3.10 How to Work With Dictionary Links in an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary
  • 12.3.11 How to View and Edit Translations
• 12.4 Getting Started with Editing a Dictionary
  • 12.4.1 What You May Need to Know About Localized Number Formatting Support in Oracle SOA Composer
  • 12.4.2 What You May Need to Know About Cutting/Copying and Pasting Rule Elements
  • 12.4.3 How to Edit Globals in an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary
  • 12.4.4 How to Edit Value Sets in an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary
  • 12.4.5 How to Edit Decision Functions in an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary
  • 12.4.6 What You May Need to Know About Oracle Business Rules Dictionary Editor Declarative Component
  • 12.4.7 What You May Need to Know About Oracle Business Rules Dictionary Editor Task Flow
• 12.5 Editing Rules in an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary
  • 12.5.1 Using the Rulesets Tab
  • 12.5.2 How to Edit Rules in an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary
  • 12.5.3 How to Add a Rule
  • 12.5.4 How to Delete a Rule
  • 12.5.5 How to Show and Edit Advanced Settings for Rules
  • 12.5.6 How to Add Rule Conditions
  • 12.5.7 How to Delete Rule Conditions
  • 12.5.8 How to Modify Rule Conditions
  • 12.5.9 How to Add Rule Actions
  • 12.5.10 How to Delete Rule Actions
  • 12.5.11 How to Modify Rule Actions
  • 12.5.12 How to Work with Advanced Mode Rules
    • 12.5.12.1 Working with Advanced Mode Options
  • 12.5.13 How to Work with Extended Tests
  • 12.5.14 How to Work with Tree Mode Rules
  • 12.5.15 What You May Need to Know About Oracle Business Rules Editor Declarative Component
  • 12.5.16 What You May Need to Know About Oracle Business Rules Dictionary Editor Declarative Component
  • 12.5.17 What You May Need to Know About Oracle Business Rules Dictionary Editor Task Flow
• 12.6 Using the Oracle SOA Composer Browser Windows
  • 12.6.1 Expression Builder
  • 12.6.2 Condition Browser
  • 12.6.3 Date Browser
  • 12.6.4 Right Operand Browser
• 12.7 Editing Decision Tables in an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary
  • 12.7.1 Adding a Decision Table
  • 12.7.2 Adding Condition Rows to a Decision Table
  • 12.7.3 Adding Actions to a Decision Table
  • 12.7.4 Adding Rules to a Decision Table
    • 12.7.4.1 Editing Decision Table Cells
    • 12.7.4.2 Controlling the Order of Rules in a Decision Table
  • 12.7.5 Deleting Rules in a Decision Table
  • 12.7.6 Defining Tests in a Decision Table
  • 12.7.7 Splitting and Compacting a Decision Table
  • 12.7.8 Checking for Missing Rules in a Decision Table
  • 12.7.9 Performing Conflict Resolution in Decision Tables
  • 12.7.10 Switching From Rows to Columns
  • 12.7.11 Working with Advanced Mode Options in a Decision Table
  • 12.7.12 Deleting a Decision Table
  • 12.7.13 Editing Decision Tables in Microsoft Excel
    • 12.7.13.1 Understanding What is Exported
    • 12.7.13.2 How to Export Decision Tables
    • 12.7.13.3 How to Import Decision Tables to the Dictionary
    • 12.7.13.4 How to Edit Decision Tables in Excel
  • 12.7.14 What You Need to Know About Rule Test Variables
• 12.8 Comparing and Merging Oracle Business Rules Dictionaries
  • 12.8.1 How to see Differences Between Dictionaries
• 12.9 Localizing Names of Resources in Oracle Business Rules
  • 12.9.1 How to Localize the Alias of a Oracle Business Rules Component
• 12.10 Synchronizing Rules Dictionary in Oracle JDeveloper With Runtime Dictionary Updates
• 12.11 Validating and Diagnosing an Oracle Business Rules Dictionary
  • 12.11.1 Understanding the Validation Log Tab
  • 12.11.2 Understanding the Diagnostics Tab
  • 12.11.3 Understanding the History Center Tab
  • 12.11.4 Understanding the Save Log Tab
• 12.12 Working with Tasks
  • 12.12.1 How to View Task Metadata
  • 12.12.2 How to Configure a Task or an AMX Rule Metadata
    • 12.12.2.1 Configuring Event-Driven Settings
    • 12.12.2.2 Configuring Data-Driven Settings (Rule or Condition)

Appendices

A Oracle Business Rules Files and Limitations

• A.1 Rules Designer Naming Conventions
  • A.1.1 Ruleset Naming
  • A.1.2 Dictionary Naming
  • A.1.3 Alias Naming
  • A.1.4 XML Schema Target Package Naming

B Oracle Business Rules Built-in Classes and Functions

• B.1 String Classes
• B.2 List Classes
• B.3 Numeric Classes
• B.4 Time and Duration Classes
• B.5 Miscellaneous Classes
• B.6 Functions

C Oracle Business Rules Frequently Asked Questions

• C.1 Why Do Rules Not Fire When A Java Object is Asserted as a Fact and Then Changed Without Using the Modify Action?
• C.2 What are the Differences Between Oracle Business Rules RL Language and Java?
• C.3 How Does a RuleSession Handle Concurrency and Synchronization?
  • C.3.1 Sample RuleSession Shared Objects
  • C.3.2 Sample RuleSession Producer Code
  • C.3.3 Sample RuleSession Consumer Code
• C.4 How Do I Correctly Express a Self-Join?
  • C.4.1 Sample Find All Combinations of Fact F
  • C.4.2 Sample Finding Combinations of Fact F
  • C.4.3 Sample Fast Complete Comparison
• C.5 How Do I Use a Property Change Listener in Oracle Business Rules?
• C.6 What Are the Limitations on a Decision Service with Oracle Business Rules?
• C.7 How Do I Put Java Code in a Rule?
• C.8 Can I Use Java Based Facts in a Decision Service with BPEL?
• C.9 How Do I Enable Debugging in a BPEL Decision Service?
• C.10 How Do I Support Versioning with Oracle Business Rules?
• C.11 What is the Priority Order Using Priorities with Rules and Decision Tables?
• C.12 Why do XML Schema with xsd:string Typed Elements Import as Type JAXBElement?
• C.13 Why Are Changes to My Java Classes Not Reflected in the Data Model?
• C.14 How Do I Use Rules SDK to Include a null in an Expression?
• C.15 Is WebDAV Supported as a Repository to Store a Dictionary?
• C.16 Using a Source Code Control System with Rules Designer

D Oracle Business Rules Troubleshooting

• D.1 Getter and Setter Methods are not Visible
• D.2 Java Class with Only a Property Setter
• D.3 Runtime NoClassDefFound Error
• D.4 RL Specific Keyword Naming Conflict Errors
• D.5 java.lang.IllegalAccessError from Business Rules Service Runtime
• D.6 JAXB 1.0 Dictionaries and RL MultipleInheritanceException
• D.7 Why Does XML Schema with Underscores Fail JAXB Compilation?
• D.8 How Are Decision Service Input Output Element Types Restricted?
• D.9 How Are Decision Service Input Output Schema Restricted?
• D.10 How Do I Handle Java Reserved Names in an Imported Fact Type?

E Working with Oracle Business Rules and JSR-94 Execution Sets

• E.1 Introduction to Oracle Business Rules and JSR-94 Execution Sets
• E.2 Creating JSR-94 Rule Execution Sets from Oracle Business Rules Rulesets
  • E.2.1 Creating Rule Execution Set with Oracle Business Rules RL Language Text
  • E.2.2 Creating a Rule Execution Set from Oracle RL Text Specified in a URL
  • E.2.3 Creating Rule Execution Sets with Rulesets from Multiple Sources
• E.3 Using the JSR-94 Interface with Oracle Business Rules
  • E.3.1 Creating a Rule Execution Set with createRuleExecutionSet
  • E.3.2 Creating a Rule Session with createRuleSession
  • E.3.3 Working with JSR-94 Metadata
  • E.3.4 Using Oracle Business Rules JSR-94 Extensions
    • E.3.4.1 Using the Extended createRuleExecutionSet to Create a Rule Execution Set
    • E.3.4.2 Invoking an RL Language Function in JSR-94