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brmsdrools |
Business Rule Management (BRMS) with Drools |
7 hours |
This course is aimed at enterprise architects, business and system analysts and managers who want to apply business rules to their solution. With Drools you can write your business rules using almost natural language, therefore reducing the gap between business and IT.
Short Introduction to Rule Engines
- Artificial Intelligence
- Expert Systems
- What is a Rule Engine?
- Why use a Rule Engine?
- Advantages of a Rule Engine
- When should you use a Rule Engine?
- Scripting or Process Engines
- When you should NOT use a Rule Engine
- Strong and Loose Coupling
- What are rules?
Creating and Implementing Rules
Domain Specific Language (DSL)
- Replacing rules with DSL
- Testing DSL rules
jBPM
Fusion
- What is Complex Event Processing?
- Short overview on Fusion
Rules Testing
- Testing with KIE
- Testing with JUnit
Integrating Rules with Application
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wfsadm |
WildFly Server Administration |
14 hours |
This course is created for Administrators, Developers or anyone who is interested in managing WildFly Application Server (AKA JBoss Application Server).
This course usually runs on the newest version of the Application Server, but it can be tailored (as a private course) to older versions starting from version 5.1.
Module 1: Installing Core Components
- Installing the Java environment
- Installing JBoss AS
- Application server features
- Creating a custom server configuration
Module 2: Customizing JBoss AS Services
- How to monitor JBoss AS services
- JBoss AS thread pool
- Configuring logging services
- Configuring the connection to the database
- Configuring the transaction service
Module 3. Deploying EJB 3 Session Beans
- Developing Enterprise JavaBeans
- Configuring the EJB container
Module 4: Deploying a Web Application
- Developing web layout
- Configuring JBoss Web Server
Module 5: Deploying Applications with JBoss Messaging Service
- The new JBoss Messaging system
- Developing JMS applications
- Advanced JBoss Messaging
Module 6: Managing JBoss AS
- Introducing Java Management Extension
- JBoss AS Administration Console
- Managing applications
- Administering resources
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drools6int |
Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers |
21 hours |
This 3 days course is aimed to introduce Drools 6 to developers.This course doesn't cover drools integration, performance or any other complex topics.
Short introduction to rule engines
- Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
- What is Artificial Intelligence?
- Forward vs Backward chaining
- Declarative vs procedure/oop
- Comparison of solutions
- When to use rule engines?
- When not to use rule engines?
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Authoring Assets
- Workbench Integration
- Executing rules directly from KIE
- Deployment
- Decision tables
- Rule Templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing
- Work Items
- Versioning and deployment
- A bit more about repository (git)
- Developing simple process with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless vs Stateful sessions
- Selecting proper facts
- Basic operators and Drools specific operators )
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (lots of them)
- Ordering rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
- Executing ruleset from a process
- Rules vs gateways
- Short overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
- Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL to be used by manages
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Fusion (CPE), temporal reasoning (for events to happen after, between, etc...)
- Fusion operators
- Example in Event Schedules
- Unit testing
Optional Topics
- OptaPlanner
- jBPM
- Drools and integration via web services
- Drools integration via command line
- How to change rules/process after deployment without compiling
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droolsrlsadm |
Drools Rules Administration |
21 hours |
This course has been prepared for people who are involved in administering corporate knowledge assets (rules, process) like system administrators, system integrators, application server administrators, etc...
We are using the newest stable community version of Drools to run this course, but older versions are also possible if agreed before booking.Drools Administration
Short Introduction to Rule Engines
- Artificial Intelligence
- Expert Systems
- What is a Rule Engine?
- Why use a Rule Engine?
- Advantages of a Rule Engine
- When should you use a Rule Engine?
- Scripting or Process Engines
- When you should NOT use a Rule Engine
- Strong and Loose Coupling
- What are rules?
Where things are
- Managing rules in a jar file
- Git repository
- Executing rules from KIE
- Managing BPMN and workflows files
- Moving knowledge files (rules, processes, forms, work times...)
Rules Testing
- Where to store test
- How to execute tests
- Testing with JUnit
Deployment Strategies
- stand alone application
- Invoking rules from Java Code
- integration via files (json, xml, etc...)
- integration via web services
- using KIE for integration
Administration of rules
- authoring
- Packages
- Artifact Repository
- Asset Editor
- Validation
- Data Model
- Categories
- versioning
- Domain Specific Languages
- Optimizing hardware and software for rules execution
- Multithreading and Drools
Kie
- Projects structures
- Lifecycles
- Building
- Deploying
- Running
- Installation and Deployment Cheat Sheets
- Organization Units
- Users, Rules and Permissions
- Authentication
- Repositories
- Backup and Restore
- Logging
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optaprac |
OptaPlanner in Practice |
21 hours |
Planner introduction
- What is OptaPlanner?
- What is a planning problem?
- Use Cases and examples
Bin Packaging Problem Example
- Problem statement
- Problem size
- Domain model diagram
- Main method
- Solver configuration
- Domain model implementation
- Score configuration
Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP)
- Problem statement
- Problem size
- Domain model
- Main method
- Chaining
- Solver configuration
- Domain model implementation
- Score configuration
Planner configuration
- Overview
- Solver configuration
- Model your planning problem
- Use the Solver
Score calculation
- Score terminology
- Choose a Score definition
- Calculate the Score
- Score calculation performance tricks
- Reusing the Score calculation outside the Solver
Optimization algorithms
- Search space size in the real world
- Does Planner find the optimal solution?
- Architecture overview
- Optimization algorithms overview
- Which optimization algorithms should I use?
- SolverPhase
- Scope overview
- Termination
- SolverEventListener
- Custom SolverPhase
Move and neighborhood selection
- Move and neighborhood introduction
- Generic Move Selectors
- Combining multiple MoveSelectors
- EntitySelector
- ValueSelector
- General Selector features
- Custom moves
Construction heuristics
- First Fit
- Best Fit
- Advanced Greedy Fit
- Cheapest insertion
- Regret insertion
Local search
- Local Search concepts
- Hill Climbing (Simple Local Search)
- Tabu Search
- Simulated Annealing
- Late Acceptance
- Step counting hill climbing
- Late Simulated Annealing (experimental)
- Using a custom Termination, MoveSelector, EntitySelector, ValueSelector or Acceptor
Evolutionary algorithms
- Evolutionary Strategies
- Genetic Algorithms
Hyperheuristics
Exact methods
- Brute Force
- Depth-first Search
Benchmarking and tweaking
- Finding the best Solver configuration
- Doing a benchmark
- Benchmark report
- Summary statistics
- Statistics per dataset (graph and CSV)
- Advanced benchmarking
Repeated planning
- Introduction to repeated planning
- Backup planning
- Continuous planning (windowed planning)
- Real-time planning (event based planning)
Drools
- Short introduction to Drools
- Writing Score Function in Drools
Integration
- Overview
- Persistent storage
- SOA and ESB
- Other environment
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droolsdslba |
Drools 6 and DSL for Business Analysts |
21 hours |
This 3 days course is aimed to introduce Drools 6 to Business Analysts responsible for writing tests and rules.
This course focuses on creating pure logic. Analysts after this course can writing tests and logic which then can be further integrated by developers with business applications.
Short introduction to rule engines
- Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
- What is Artificial Intelligence?
- Forward vs Backward chaining
- Declarative vs procedure/oop
- Comparison of solutions
- When to use rule engines?
- When not to use rule engines?
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Declarative vs Traditional Fact Model
- Executing simple rules with simple tests
- Authoring Assets
- Decision tables
- Rule Templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing, limits and benefits
- Developing simple process with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless vs Stateful sessions
- Selecting proper facts
- Basic operators and Drools specific operators )
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (lots of them)
Ordering rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
- Executing ruleset from a process
- Rules vs gateways
- Short overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL to be used by manages
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Strategies for writing DSL from rules
- Strategies for writing rules from DSL written by analysts
Unit testing
- Test strategies (test per case or per rule)
- Executing test automatically
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drools7int |
Introduction to Drools 7 for Developers |
21 hours |
This 3 days course is aimed to introduce Drools 7 to developers.This course doesn't cover drools integration, performance or any other complex topics.
Short introduction to rule engines
- Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
- What is Artificial Intelligence?
- Forward vs Backward chaining
- Declarative vs procedure/oop
- Comparison of solutions
- When to use rule engines?
- When not to use rule engines?
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Authoring Assets
- Workbench Integration
- Executing rules directly from KIE
- Deployment
- Decision tables
- Rule Templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing
- Work Items
- Versioning and deployment
- A bit more about repository (git)
- Developing simple process with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless vs Stateful sessions
- Selecting proper facts
- Basic operators and Drools specific operators )
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (lots of them)
- Ordering rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
- Executing ruleset from a process
- Rules vs gateways
- Short overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
- Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL to be used by manages
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Fusion (CPE), temporal reasoning (for events to happen after, between, etc...)
- Fusion operators
- Example in Event Schedules
- Unit testing
Optional Topics
- OptaPlanner
- jBPM
- Drools and integration via web services
- Drools integration via command line
- How to change rules/process after deployment without compiling
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drools7dslba |
Drools 7 and DSL for Business Analysts |
21 hours |
This 3 days course is aimed to introduce Drools 7 to Business Analysts responsible for writing tests and rules.
This course focuses on creating pure logic. Analysts after this course can writing tests and logic which then can be further integrated by developers with business applications.
Short introduction to rule engines
- Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
- What is Artificial Intelligence?
- Forward vs Backward chaining
- Declarative vs procedure/oop
- Comparison of solutions
- When to use rule engines?
- When not to use rule engines?
- Alternatives to rule engines
KIE
- Declarative vs Traditional Fact Model
- Executing simple rules with simple tests
- Authoring Assets
- Decision tables
- Rule Templates
- Guided rule editor
- Testing, limits and benefits
- Developing simple process with rules
Writing rules in Eclipse
- Stateless vs Stateful sessions
- Selecting proper facts
- Basic operators and Drools specific operators )
- Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
- Intermediate calculations
- Inserting new facts
- Exercises (lots of them)
Ordering rules with BPMN
- Salience
- Ruleflow vs BPMN 2.0
- Executing ruleset from a process
- Rules vs gateways
- Short overview of BPMN 2.0 features (transactions, exception handling)
- Comprehensive declarative business logic in Drools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
- Creating new languages
- Preparing DSL to be used by manages
- Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
- Strategies for writing DSL from rules
- Strategies for writing rules from DSL written by analysts
Unit testing
- Test strategies (test per case or per rule)
- Executing test automatically
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bldrools |
Managing Business Logic with Drools |
21 hours |
This course is aimed at enterprise architects, business and system analysts, technical managers and developers who want to apply business rules to their solutions.
This course contains a lot of simple hands-on exercises during which the participants will create working rules. Please refer to our other courses if you just need an overview of Drools.
This course is usually delivered on the newest stable version of Drools and jBPM, but in case of a bespoke course, can be tailored to a specific version.
Short Introduction to Rule Engines
- Artificial Intelligence
- Expert Systems
- What is a Rule Engine?
- Why use a Rule Engine?
- Advantages of a Rule Engine
- When should you use a Rule Engine?
- Scripting or Process Engines
- When you should NOT use a Rule Engine
- Strong and Loose Coupling
- What are rules?
Creating and Implementing Rules
- Fact Model
- KIE
- Rules visioning and repository
- Exercises
Domain Specific Language (DSL)
- Replacing rules with DSL
- Testing DSL rules
- Exercises
jBPM
- Integration with Drools
- Short overview of basic BPMN
- Invoking rules from a processes
- Grouping rules
- Exercises
Fusion
- What is Complex Event Processing?
- Short overview on Fusion
- Exercises
Mvel - the rule language
- Filtering (fact type, field
- Operators
- Compound conditions
- Operators priority
- Accumulate Functions (average, min, max, sum, collectList, etc....)
Rete - under the hood
- Compilation algorithm
- Drools RETE extensions
- Node Types
- Understating Rete Tree
- Rete Optimization
Rules Testing
- Testing with KIE
- Testing with JUnit
OptaPlanner
- An overview of OptaPlanner
- Simple examples
Integrating Rules with Applications
- Invoking rules from Java Code
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