WSO2 Business Rules Server

The WSO2 Business Rules Server brings the agility of business rules to your SOA toolkit. Based on a solid platform for hosting business rules, our Business Rules Server excels at extending the capabilities of your SOA.

Allowing business rules to be encapsulated in a simpler, more direct dialect and language closer to business analysts, ensures that the technology directly meets the enterprise’s business needs.

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Features

Create Services Implemented with Rules
- Rule engine working memory can be associated with various lifetimes including request, session or global
- Single rule set across all service operations allows working memory state sharing across business rule invocations
- Extension context for selectively publishing events from any rule set to WSO2 Business Activity Monitor
Integration Ready Rule Services
- Support for standard, interoperable protocols including WS-*, REST and JSON
- Services can be exposed over various transports including HTTP(S), JMS and SMTP
- Secure rule services in multiple approaches including HTTP Basic Auth, WS-Security, OpenID and OAuth
Rule Repository for Management and Governance
- Central storage and management of rules (via WSO2 Governance Registry)
- Lifecycle management, versioning and full governance (via WSO2 Governance Registry)
- Integrate user role into rule execution and/or rule selection
Pluggable Rule Engine Support
- Any JSR 94 API compliant rule engine
- Built in support for Drools rule engine
- Support for both decision tables and rule sets
Rule Execution Capability for Workflow Systems
- Any workflow system can invoke rule services as an activity via HTTP, REST or Web services
- WSO2 Business Process Server extension activity for embedded rule execution in a workflow
Rule Execution Capability for WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus
- Rule mediator for message, service or API mediation
- Content based decision making
- Rule based content editing
- SLA management
High Performance, High Availability, Scalability & Stability
- Supports highly available deployment
- Horizontal scaling via clustering with stateless server architecture for session scoped rule services
- Long term execution stability with low resource utilization
Lightweight, Developer Friendly and Easy to Deploy
- Use of widely used Drools rule language for developer familiarity
- Easy to debug services with tools for message tracing and interactive testing with TryIt capabilities
- Automatic generation of WSDLs for services and service stubs
- Server customization via feature provisioning of any WSO2 middleware capability
- Choice of deployment to on-premise servers, private cloud or public cloud (WSO2 StratosLive Business Rules as a Service)
- Integrated with SVN, Maven, Ant and other standard tools for development & deployment
- Integrated to WSO2 Developer Studio, Eclipse-based IDE for all WSO2 products
Manage & Monitor
- Comprehensive management & monitoring Web console with enterprise-level security
- Built-in collection and monitoring of standard access and performance statistics
- JMX MBeans for key metrics monitoring and management
- Integrates with WSO2 Business Activity Monitor for operational audit and KPI monitoring and management
- Flexible logging support with integration to enterprise logging systems
- Centralized configuration management across different environments with lifecycles and versioning via integration to WSO2 Governance Registry