#356 Oracle Business Rules 12c --> Verbal Rules and testing

Here is a concise lab that shows you how to create verbal rules and also how to leverage the
new rules test functionality that comes with 12c.

Lab available here 

#11 SOA 12c New Features - Enhanced SOA Composer for Business Rules

Users of SOA Composer now see the composites deployed as well.

We can also view a diagram of the composite -

Rule editing has been greatly improved -

One can also export to Excel and edit the rules there -

Excel Sheet has 3 tabs -

I just edited the sheet and added the "Bushmills" Rule.

Let's look at this in some more detail - this is the Value Sets Tab.
I added Bushmills and whiskey.

Now to the Rule itself on the OrderDT tab (OrderDT is the name of the decision table)

Now I can import this excel sheet in JDeveloper's Rules Editor.

The newly added rule is highlighted.

Merge changes

Great stuff!

Business user logs back in to SOA Composer and sees the newly created Rule 4 -

#231 - Oracle learning resources for Oracle Business Rules

Check it out here

#219 SOA Made Simple 4-6

Continuing my review -

Chapter 4 - Classification of services -

In this chapter the authors go into more detail on Elementary services, Composire Services and Process services and their relationship to the 3 architecture layers - Business, Information and Technology.This chapter also discusses aggregation vs orchestration - and contains many real world examples to illustrate all concepts discussed.

Chapter 5 - The SOA Platform

This chapter discusses the building blocks of a SOA platform - Registry/Repository, ESB, Identity Management, BPM etc.
Please see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/overview/index.html
for a description of the Oracle platform.

This is an excellent chapter and prepares one well for looking at implementation and maybe Antony Reynold's book  - Oracle SOA Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook

Chapter 6 - Solution Architectures 

This chapter looks at some of the SOA platforms available - Oracle, IBM, MSFT.
Guess which one comes out on top?

Again the link -

SOA made simple