Using webMethods Business Rules
A webMethods Business Rule is a decision-making tree capable of complex behavior. Designing a rule is very straightforward. Rule Entity is the term used to describe the components. Specifically, those components are decision tables, rule sets, event rules, and rule actions. Each plays a specific role in the decision-making tree.
Rule: a rule contains a decision table or a rule set with multiple tables.
Decision table: contains rule actions (Data, Service, and Process).
Rule action: indicates one of three types of actions to execute for a rule: Data actions, Service actions, and Process actions.
Process action: indicates which action to execute for a process, for example: start, join, suspend, cancel, fail, resume and call a task.
Note that a process can invoke a rule, but a rule can also invoke a process.
For more on webMethods Business Rules and how they work, see webMethods BPM Rules Development Help.
