Comments on: Thoughts on Business Rules Engines http://webgambit.com/2007/05/04/thoughts-on-business-rules-engines/ Thoughts on Software Development from Karthik Hariharan Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:11:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: James Taylor http://webgambit.com/2007/05/04/thoughts-on-business-rules-engines/comment-page-1/#comment-2 James Taylor Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:21:05 +0000 http://www.webgambit.com/?p=3#comment-2 <p>Experience with bad implementations of a class of technology should not rule out the use of that class. If the first database you used did a rotten job of row locking, would that mean that you can't use a relational database when you need to lock rows? No, of course not.</p> <p>If you have a rules engine that requires manual mapping, that does not simply execute rules against your objects or that tries to pretend that English is a valid way to write "code" then don't use it! Go find one of the (several) that understand the need to build <a href="http://www.edmblog.com/weblog/2007/03/what_you_need_t.html" rel="nofollow">decision services</a> that integrate easily and tightly with your systems</p> <p>JT</p> <p><a href="http://www.edmblog.com" rel="nofollow">www.edmblog.com</a></p> Experience with bad implementations of a class of technology should not rule out the use of that class. If the first database you used did a rotten job of row locking, would that mean that you can't use a relational database when you need to lock rows? No, of course not.

If you have a rules engine that requires manual mapping, that does not simply execute rules against your objects or that tries to pretend that English is a valid way to write "code" then don't use it! Go find one of the (several) that understand the need to build decision services that integrate easily and tightly with your systems

JT

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