Rule Engine Features*

• Naturally models business rules as asserted facts and rules

• Excellent for decision support & constraint based optimization

• Easy to modify or adjust by semi-technical business people

• Based on standards such as RuleML** and the Prolog logic language

• Integrated with Java through custom sensors and effectors

• Uses the Entity Engine to expand your knowledge base to include all the data in your database, in addition to the normal asserted facts

• Forward chained rulesets can be invoked with the Service Engine

• Backward chained rulesets can be treated as entities in the Entity Engine

• Original implementation from Building Parsers with Java by Steven John Metsker (Addison Wesley) - has great info on logic and other engines