BizTalk Server Business Rule Engine: Survival Guide

BizTalk Server Business Rule Engine: Survival Guide

Introduction

Out of box the business rules engine (BRE) is offered as either stand-alone .NET-compliant class library that includes a number of modules, support components, and tools or as component within your BizTalk solution enabling you to apply business rules to your processes (i.e. orchestrations). BRE implements the Rete algorithm, which is an efficient pattern matching algorithm for implementing production rule systems, and provides forward chaining execution. Forward chaining is one of the two main methods of reasoning when using inference rules (in artificial intelligence). This article will give you an overview of all relevant available resources regarding BRE to enable you to build robust solution with BRE.

Walkthroughs

On MSDN BizTalk Server 2010 you will find the following walkthroughs:

Code Samples

Microsoft BizTalk Server includes several business rules samples in its software development kit (SDK). The following samples can be found:

The following code samples can be found at CodeProject:

The following code samples can be found on Codeplex:

Articles

There are a couple of article written on BizTalk BRE you can read online. The following articles can be read online:

Books

There is actually one BizTalk book that extensively details the BRE and that is the:

Webcasts

There are a couple of webcasts on BRE:

Blog posts

There are several good blog posts available online. The following is a list of BRE blog posts:


See Also

Another important place to find a huge amount of BizTalk related articles is the TechNet Wiki itself. The best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.

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