Preface

This guide describes how to design Oracle Business Rules.

Audience

Designing Business Rules with Oracle Business Process Management is intended for application programmers, system administrators, and other users who perform the following tasks:

• Create Oracle Business Rules programs

• Modify or customize existing Oracle Business Rules programs

• Create Java applications using rules programs

• Add rules programs to existing Java applications

To use this document, you need a working knowledge of Java programming language fundamentals.

Related Documentation

For more information, see the following Oracle Resources:

• Rules Language Reference forOracle Business Process Management

• Managing and Monitoring Processeswith Oracle Business Process Management

• Developing SOA Applications with Oracle SOA Suite

• Java API Reference for Oracle Business Rules

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