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Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Audience
Related Documentation
Conventions
What's New in This Guide
New and Changed Features for 12c (12.1.3)
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)
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
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