jboss architect meetup - november 2013 - 'play by the rules

'Play by the Rules' JBoss Architect Meetup

Jeremy Brown, Keith Lynch, Alexandre Porcelli, Geoffrey de SmetRed Hat

Agenda

JBoss Value Proposition

BRMS Technology Overview

What are Business Rules?

What is Complex Event Processing (CEP)?

RSA BRMS Usage

A Sneak Peak of JBoss BRMS 6.0New GUI

OptaPlanner

The JBoss Value Proposition

JBoss Community & JBoss Enterprise
Targeting Different Use Cases & Deployment Stages

Community for developing open source middleware

Embrace release early, release often model

Multiple projects with different release schedules, dependencies, versions, etc.

Development focuses on current release (e.g. no patches, etc.)

Support via public forums, wikis, public issue trackers, etc.

Great for initial development, PoC's, small rules projects

Caveat Emptor for production deployment

Integrates multiple projects into a single distribution

Target production deployments, business-critical reliability

Offers long-term stability & application compatibility

Includes enterprise support for mission critical applications

Ideally suited for long-term enterprise production use

Includes Red Hat's Open Software Assurance for IP protection

Community is for developer use Contributing source code to projects

Early look at new features and feedback

Milestone releases of new features every few months

No SLA, no patches

Community Final release = Alpha release candidate for Enterprise

Enterprise is for production use Binary distro of productized (i.e. tested/patched/certified) community bits

Cumulative patches every few months

With Enterprise std/premium SLA

Enterprise releases follow Community Final w Alpha/Beta/GA versions

Both major and minor releases follow a rigorous, phased product delivery methodology.

JBoss BRMS Product Delivery Process

JBoss Enterprise productization process Starts w selection of appropriate releases of Community projects

Includes integration and testing of project components against well-defined product requirements

Includes testing/certification on many OS/JVM/DB combinations

Includes interoperability testing with 3rd party ISVs

Creation of add'l product docs

Essentially the same well-accepted SW release process as any mission-critical enterprise software vendor would follow (OSS or otherwise)

What are Business Rules?

Example

INSURANCE COMPANY

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INSURANCE COMPANY

Problems:1. Business rules are hiddenin applications

Insurance Claim

Example

INSURANCE COMPANY


2. It takes too long to change business rules

Insurance Claim

Example

INSURANCE COMPANY


2. It takes too long to change business rules

3. People interpret rules
inconsistently

Insurance Claim

Example

The BRMS Solution

Rule RepositorySeparate the business rules
from the applications

The BRMS Solution

Rule Repository1. Separate the business rulesfrom the applications

Express rules in terms that the
business can readily understand

AHA!

The BRMS Solution



Empower business and IT experts
to collaborate

AHA!

The BRMS Solution



Empower business and IT experts
to collaborate

4. Support all the rules

AHA!

The BRMS Solution

BRMS ComponentsRepository

FactsDecisions

BusinessRule Definitions

Business Data

Enterprise Applications

Decision Service

Business AnalystsDevelopers

Authoring Tools for Business Users

Authoring Tools for Developers

What is Complex Event Processing (CEP)?

Problems:

Hard to derive business relevant data from available information

Important patterns go undetected

Business fails to respond to changes in its environment

Example: Multiple Customer Touch Points

Complex Event ProcessingDetect events of significance to a business by recognizing time-based patterns in
one or more real-time data feeds...Weather delay in LondonBenefits:

Active decision making:
Business makes timely
decisions & responds
quickly to external events

Business Rules

RSA BRMS Usage

Business Challenge

Dealing with strict change control systems

Hyper competitive market made harder with aggregators

Need the ability to respond in a timely fashion

Solution

Rules designed around the eBusiness team requirements

Rules are in the hands of the team and are updated modified with the help of an existing change control system for website changes

Based on excel decision tables

Benefits

Respond quicker to changing market condidtions

Integrated into an existing AIX + ESB solution

Empowered the business to be in control of key levers

A Sneak Peak of JBoss
BRMS 6.0

What are we announcing?

Combining the strengths of Polymita and JBoss BRMS

Polymita BPMSJBoss BRMS 5.3JBoss BRMS 6.0JBoss BPM Suite 6.0

JBoss BRMS 6.0

Process

Events

Rules

Events

Rules

Process

Events

Rules

New in 6.0

JBoss BRMS 6 Key Features

Business RulesDrools v6 high performance inference engine

Complex Event Processing

OptaPlanner technology preview

New Tools for business and IT users

BRMS 6.0 Demonstration

Alexandre PorcelliJBoss Engineering

JBoss BRMS 6
OptaPlanner

Technology Preview

Cautions

Remember OptaPlanner will be a Technology Preview only in BRMS 6.0

Unsupported for production, play with it in development

Full support planned for BRMS 6.1

Top 4 Take Aways

AHA!

Automate business decisions with BRMS

Empower business userswith BRMS

Accelerate application development with BRMS

Transition to the Cloudwith BRMS

HYBRID CLOUD

PUBLICCLOUD

PRIVATECLOUD

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