Rules Guide

About This Book

Purpose

This book shows how to use the Rule subsystem to create and use rules in your Director applications.

This book is for Java developers.

This book assumes you are familiar with Java programming, XML, and developing Web applications.

Here's a summary of the topics in this book:

Chapter		Description
Concepts
1	About Rules	Provides an overview of the Rule subsystem and how to design rule-based applications
2	Rule Development Basics	Describes how rules work and how to use and deploy rules and pipelines in Director applications
3	Developing Custom Conditions and Actions	Describes how to write your own classes for special-purpose conditions and actions
Tools
4	Rule and Macro Editors	Describes how to use the eXtend Workbench Rule Editor and the Condition and Action Macro Editors
5	Condition and Action Wizards	Describes how to write custom conditions and actions using the eXtend Workbench Condition and Action Wizards
6	Pipeline and Binding Editors	Describes how to use the eXtend Workbench Pipeline Editor and Pipeline Binders
Reference
7	Installed Conditions	Describes how to use the installed conditions for creating rules in the eXtend Workbench Rule Editor
8	Installed Actions	Describes how to use the installed actions for creating rules in the eXtend Workbench Rule Editor
9	Rule JSP Tag Library	Describes how to use the custom JSP tags to call methods in the Rule subsystem API

Rules Guide