Getting Started with Apama EPL
Apama Event Processing Language (EPL) is an event-driven programming language. It lets you write applications that:
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Monitor streams of events to find particular events or patterns of events of interest.
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Analyze events (or patterns of events) of interest to determine whether some action is appropriate.
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Perform actions based on particular events or patterns of events.
This section discusses the main concepts you must understand to write applications in EPL.