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Business Integration
Hi,
We have built a rules engine which validates a limited amount of rules around a web application. The main problem is that the existing rule engine is not supporting the extensibility. We decided to go for a rule engine product like Blaze Advisor to usein our business. Kindly tell me how the existing business rules can be integrated into the blaze. Does blaze support to load the rules from external buckets such as database, other rules engine etc.
If Blaze supports all these, what would be the Strategy and RoadMap to implement the existing rules into the Blaze Advisor's repository.
We urgently require this because the timeline is very less to implement the new rules. Waiting eagerly for a reply.
Thanks,
2 Replies
Blaze Advisor is a rules platform that can be used for a lot of things, but it does not (at least out of the box) provide any automatic import of rules from other languages or representations.
You can, however, use the ROM/PROM/RMA APIs to generate rules yourself, if you choose. But I would strongly advise you to implement your first couple of rules services by hand, so that you understand the mechanics before you try to automate.
HTH,
Jostein
Hi,
What Jostein said is 100% accurate. There is no way to automatically convert between rules engines. I would like to add that if the rules in the other system follow a similar pattern, then creating templates in Blaze and entering the rules that way could be the faster way to do it. If you are desperate for fast input, I have created a template of rules, then looked at the generated XML and created the actual XML from the rules then did some cut and paste to get them in. THIS IS RISKY IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
My biggest recommendation though is to hire someone that knows Blaze to help you out. While some of the theory will directly convert, you will make mistakes about using Blaze and its strongpoints correctly versus just getting things in.
Normally, for this kind of a conversion project, a straight conversion is not the best way to proceed. You should re-examine the system and design it correctly for Blaze using someone who knows Blaze.
Hope this helps,
Tom
Business Rules Consulting, Inc.
