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Drools Training in Houston
An Open Source Business Rule Management System (BRMS) courses

TX, Austin - Littlefield Congress

106 East Sixth Street Suite 900
Austin, TX 78701
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Client Testimonials

Business Rule Management (BRMS) with Drools Training Course

I appreciate the effort made by NobleProg and the trainer in particular to hold this course, Bernard not only described the features of the product, he also helped me understand how it fits with my project

 

Fernando Orus - InSynergy Consulting SA

Introduction to Drools 6

I liked the logic exercises (writing rules conditions) on the 2nd day.

Jan Janke- CERN

WildFly Server Administration

Trainer was excellent.

100% hands on. Very effective way of learning.

Steve Kirkland-Walton - Purple Secure Systems

Introduction to Drools 6

The course was thorough and was better than wandering through the many books and articles found on the web. I liked the hands on approach and feeling of being able to learn by doing and learning from my mistakes. This something we will use for our software development and testing.

Thank you!!!

Martin Arrambide - Sandia National Laboratories

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

Lots of exercises, which were good and which were well-administered.

Joseph Richardson - Sandia National Labs

Business Rule Management (BRMS) with Drools

good atmosphere

Martin Jesterschawek - OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

Interactive approach, keeps the training interesting.

Elaine McCarthy - Sun Life Financial

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

very well delivered

Damien Reid - Sun Life Financial

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

Interactive trainer, helpful and had lots of suggestions for participants.

Liam Donovan - Sun Life Financial

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

Interactive trainer, helpful and had lots of suggestions for participants.

Liam Donovan - Sun Life Financial

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

Nice to see some other editors, other details around bpmn

Derek Doherty - Sun Life Financial

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

Exercises in Eclipse

Anna Beluskova - Sun Life Financial

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

The exercises were great and the material is short and concise.

Anjali Sharma - Sun Life Financial

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

it met our expectations

Vadim Bilan - Sun Life Financial

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

Maintaining speed with taking every one in the group along. Exercise oriented. Tried to cover as much as possible comfirtabliy.

Rakesh Prajapati - Sun Life Financial

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

Flexibility and throrough explanations regarding the usage

Denis Kirchhübel - Eldor Technology AS

Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers

Positive and optimistic attitude. Gives good answers to questions.

Emil Krabbe Nielsen - Eldor Technology AS

Drools Course Events - Houston

Code Name Venue Duration Course Date PHP Course Price [Remote / Classroom]
bldrools Managing Business Logic with Drools TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Tue, Sep 5 2017, 9:30 am $5370 / $7530
brmsdrools Business Rule Management (BRMS) with Drools TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 7 hours Thu, Sep 7 2017, 9:30 am $2190 / $3720
droolsrlsadm Drools Rules Administration TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Wed, Sep 13 2017, 9:30 am $5600 / $7760
drools6int Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Mon, Sep 18 2017, 9:30 am $5600 / $7760
drools7dslba Drools 7 and DSL for Business Analysts TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Mon, Sep 25 2017, 9:30 am $4550 / $6710
optaprac OptaPlanner in Practice TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Tue, Oct 3 2017, 9:30 am $4900 / $7060
wfsadm WildFly Server Administration TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 14 hours Tue, Oct 10 2017, 9:30 am $3590 / $5280
drools7int Introduction to Drools 7 for Developers TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Wed, Oct 18 2017, 9:30 am $4550 / $6710
droolsrlsadm Drools Rules Administration TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Mon, Nov 6 2017, 9:30 am $5600 / $7760
brmsdrools Business Rule Management (BRMS) with Drools TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 7 hours Thu, Nov 9 2017, 9:30 am $2190 / $3720
drools6int Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Wed, Nov 15 2017, 9:30 am $5600 / $7760
bldrools Managing Business Logic with Drools TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Mon, Dec 4 2017, 9:30 am $5370 / $7530
wfsadm WildFly Server Administration TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 14 hours Mon, Dec 4 2017, 9:30 am $3590 / $5280
optaprac OptaPlanner in Practice TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Wed, Dec 6 2017, 9:30 am $4900 / $7060
drools7dslba Drools 7 and DSL for Business Analysts TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Wed, Dec 13 2017, 9:30 am $4550 / $6710
brmsdrools Business Rule Management (BRMS) with Drools TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 7 hours Mon, Jan 1 2018, 9:30 am $2190 / $3720
droolsrlsadm Drools Rules Administration TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Mon, Jan 15 2018, 9:30 am $5600 / $7760
drools7int Introduction to Drools 7 for Developers TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Mon, Jan 22 2018, 9:30 am $4550 / $6710
wfsadm WildFly Server Administration TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 14 hours Wed, Jan 24 2018, 9:30 am $3590 / $5280
bldrools Managing Business Logic with Drools TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Wed, Jan 24 2018, 9:30 am $5370 / $7530
drools6int Introduction to Drools 6 for Developers TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Wed, Jan 31 2018, 9:30 am $5600 / $7760
optaprac OptaPlanner in Practice TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Tue, Feb 6 2018, 9:30 am $4900 / $7060
drools7dslba Drools 7 and DSL for Business Analysts TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Tue, Feb 6 2018, 9:30 am $4550 / $6710
brmsdrools Business Rule Management (BRMS) with Drools TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 7 hours Thu, Feb 22 2018, 9:30 am $2190 / $3720
droolsrlsadm Drools Rules Administration TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Wed, Mar 7 2018, 9:30 am $5600 / $7760
drools7int Introduction to Drools 7 for Developers TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 21 hours Wed, Mar 14 2018, 9:30 am $4550 / $6710
wfsadm WildFly Server Administration TX, Houston - Downtown - Pennzoil Plaza 14 hours Thu, Mar 15 2018, 9:30 am $3590 / $5280

Course Outlines

Code Name Duration Outline
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

  • Fact Model
  • KIE
  • Eclipse

Domain Specific Language (DSL)

  • Replacing rules with DSL
  • Testing DSL rules

jBPM

  • Integration with Drools

Fusion

  • What is Complex Event Processing?
  • Short overview on Fusion

Rules Testing

  • Testing with KIE
  • Testing with JUnit

Integrating Rules with Application
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
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

  1. Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
  2. What is Artificial Intelligence?
  3. Forward vs Backward chaining
  4. Declarative vs procedure/oop
  5. Comparison of solutions
  6. When to use rule engines?
  7. When not to use rule engines?
  8. Alternatives to rule engines

KIE

  1. Authoring Assets
  2. Workbench Integration
    • Executing rules directly from KIE
    • Deployment
  3. Decision tables
  4. Rule Templates
  5. Guided rule editor
  6. Testing
  7. Work Items
  8. Versioning and deployment
  9. A bit more about repository (git)
  10. Developing simple process with rules

Writing rules in Eclipse

  1. Stateless vs Stateful sessions
  2. Selecting proper facts
    • Basic operators and Drools specific operators )
    • Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
    • ​Intermediate calculations
  3. Inserting new facts
  4. Exercises (lots of them)
  5. 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
  6. Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
    • Creating new languages
    • Preparing DSL to be used by manages
    • Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
  7. Fusion (CPE), temporal reasoning (for events to happen after, between, etc...)
    • Fusion operators
    • Example in Event Schedules
  8. Unit testing

Optional Topics

  1. OptaPlanner
  2. jBPM
  3. Drools and integration via web services
  4. Drools integration via command line
  5. How to change rules/process after deployment without compiling
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
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
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

  1. Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
  2. What is Artificial Intelligence?
  3. Forward vs Backward chaining
  4. Declarative vs procedure/oop
  5. Comparison of solutions
  6. When to use rule engines?
  7. When not to use rule engines?
  8. Alternatives to rule engines

KIE

  1. Declarative vs Traditional Fact Model
  2. Executing simple rules with simple tests
  3. Authoring Assets
  4. Decision tables
  5. Rule Templates
  6. Guided rule editor
  7. Testing, limits and benefits
  8. Developing simple process with rules

Writing rules in Eclipse

  1. Stateless vs Stateful sessions
  2. Selecting proper facts
    • Basic operators and Drools specific operators )
    • Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
    • ​Intermediate calculations
  3. Inserting new facts
  4. 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

  1. Test strategies (test per case or per rule)
  2. Executing test automatically
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

  1. Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
  2. What is Artificial Intelligence?
  3. Forward vs Backward chaining
  4. Declarative vs procedure/oop
  5. Comparison of solutions
  6. When to use rule engines?
  7. When not to use rule engines?
  8. Alternatives to rule engines

KIE

  1. Authoring Assets
  2. Workbench Integration
    • Executing rules directly from KIE
    • Deployment
  3. Decision tables
  4. Rule Templates
  5. Guided rule editor
  6. Testing
  7. Work Items
  8. Versioning and deployment
  9. A bit more about repository (git)
  10. Developing simple process with rules

Writing rules in Eclipse

  1. Stateless vs Stateful sessions
  2. Selecting proper facts
    • Basic operators and Drools specific operators )
    • Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
    • ​Intermediate calculations
  3. Inserting new facts
  4. Exercises (lots of them)
  5. 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
  6. Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
    • Creating new languages
    • Preparing DSL to be used by manages
    • Basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) with DSL
  7. Fusion (CPE), temporal reasoning (for events to happen after, between, etc...)
    • Fusion operators
    • Example in Event Schedules
  8. Unit testing

Optional Topics

  1. OptaPlanner
  2. jBPM
  3. Drools and integration via web services
  4. Drools integration via command line
  5. How to change rules/process after deployment without compiling
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

  1. Short history or Expert Systems and Rules Engine
  2. What is Artificial Intelligence?
  3. Forward vs Backward chaining
  4. Declarative vs procedure/oop
  5. Comparison of solutions
  6. When to use rule engines?
  7. When not to use rule engines?
  8. Alternatives to rule engines

KIE

  1. Declarative vs Traditional Fact Model
  2. Executing simple rules with simple tests
  3. Authoring Assets
  4. Decision tables
  5. Rule Templates
  6. Guided rule editor
  7. Testing, limits and benefits
  8. Developing simple process with rules

Writing rules in Eclipse

  1. Stateless vs Stateful sessions
  2. Selecting proper facts
    • Basic operators and Drools specific operators )
    • Basic accumulate functions (sum, max, etc...)
    • ​Intermediate calculations
  3. Inserting new facts
  4. 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

  1. Test strategies (test per case or per rule)
  2. Executing test automatically
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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