Category Archives: BusinessRules

Rule Interchange Format is now a W3C Standard

W3C announces the publication OF a new standard FOR building rule systems ON the Web: Rule Interchange Format (RIF).

The goal OF RIF IS TO facilitate the interoperation AND interchange BETWEEN various rule languages AND rule engines. RIF defines a common XML serialization LANGUAGE FOR several declarative rule languages (LIKE OMG SBVR, OMG PRR, SWRL, a subfamily OF RuleML, etc)

SinelaboreRT – Generate efficient source code from UML state diagrams!

Today we have a guest post (interested IN a guest post? contact me) by Peter Mueller. He IS going TO introduce TO ALL OF you his tool SinelaboreRT – FROM UML state diagrams TO source code made easy :

State machines ARE without ANY doubt a very good choice FOR designing AND implementing the behavior OF reactive systems. Whether you’ve used statecharts to model a device, a subsystem, or a module, you might ask yourself why you don’t just generate code FROM that model.

(Re)discovering the business rules manifesto

I recently (re)discovered the Business Rules Manifesto that states the importance OF business rules AND how they should be defined/processed.

SOME OF my favourite articles IN the manifesto:

  • Rules ARE a FIRST-class citizen OF the requirements world.
  • Rules must be explicit. NO rule IS ever assumed about ANY concept OR fact.
  • Rules should be expressed declaratively IN NATURAL-LANGUAGE sentences FOR the business audience.
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