This section summarizes the new features and significant product changes for Oracle Business Rules 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 User's 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
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 The Non-Rete Algorithm.
Support for business phrases and verbal rules. Verbal rules work hand in hand with business phrases to provide a flexible way author rules using natural language statements to express rule logic in domain specific sentences that are similar to spoken language. See Introduction to Verbal Rules and Business Phrases.
Support for a simpler way to test rules with complex input. The test feature enables both developers and business users to quickly check that a rule satisfies the expected behavior or, if modified, to see if a rule regresses existing functionality. See Testing and Validating Business Rules.
Support for comparing and merging two or more dictionaries. See How to Compare or Merge Two or More Dictionaries.
Support for editing Decision Tables in Microsft Excel. Business users may find that editing Decision Tables is easier to do in Microsoft Excel. New functionality enables both developers and business users to export and edit Decision Tables in Excel and then import the Decision Tables back into the dictionary. See Editing Decision Tables in Microsoft Excel.