Subject:
[xml-dev] XRules: Mind your own business rules
WALLEED wrote:
Hi everyone,
Thanks to XML
and Web services, we're on the verge of an explosive
growth in the amounts of
data that our software applications exchange with
each other. Some might
argue that we're already drowning in it, but I think
Hi Waleed,
Our company are posting our submission to the
workshop today.
Idiom is a company and
product that believes the story that you are telling about the need to deploy
rules across organizational boundaries.
We can give you many
examples in insurance and finance, health, logistics, government, and
utlities.
These rules are often implementations of contract terms
and conditions, and so anywhere that you find a contract, you find an
opportunity for rules transfusion.
We agree that far more data will be
transferred between parties in XML format. This is usually then instantiated as
a DOM - and then the receiving usually wants to (in order) validate it, accept
or approve it, value it (cost or price), determine downstream actions required
to respond (workflow), and so on. All of these things are implementations of
decision making behavior that is driven by the explosion of XML business
messaging.
As you have suggested, we attach our rules to a DOM . We
do not yet deploy a generic engine to interpret a language as you are proposing,
but this is under consideration. Only the language is missing - you might want
to look up this Workshop - http://w3c.org/2004/12/rules-ws/cfp,
it might be focused on the subject that you are raising.
Rather than deploying a language, we generate an implementation of the
rules (Java, C#, or C++) which can be run directly against the DOM, or it can be
wrapped in SOAP, messaging wrappers, various containers (eg Sonic,
Biztalk, Crossworlds), dll's etc.
Regards,
LEO
Idiom
Ltd
http://www.idiomsoftware.com
"Business
rules for business people"
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