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About This Tutorial

This tutorial is a guide for business analysts and software developers who want to participate in the development, deployment and maintenance of rules-based Web applications using OpenRules. The OpenRules installation provides an all-in-one download containing key technologies to simplify the building of rule services and rules-based web interfaces. Here we try to cover all the things you need to know to make the best use of this tutorial.

Who Should Use This Tutorial
How to Read This Tutorial
Typographical Conventions
Acknowledgements

Who Should Use This Tutorial

This tutorial is intended for both business analysts and software developers interested in developing and deploying rule services and Web applications using OpenRules. It should help software developers support the work of the business analysts described in the Tutorial for Business Analysts.

How to Read This Tutorial

If you are a business analysts you may ignore the sections marked with [T] or [TT] at the end of the section title. Such sections are intended for software developers and system administrators only. The abbreviations stand for:

[T]   - Technical Information
[TT] - Too Technical Information

If you are a technical specialist (a software developer) you probably would like to read all sections. If you are a web server administrator, you should pay special attention to the sections marked [TT].

Typographical Conventions

This tutorial uses italic in the following situations:

Menu selections indicated with the right-arrow character +, for example, First + Second, should be interpreted as: select the First menu, then choose Second from the First submenu.

Acknowledgements

OpenRules development team has been stimulated and enhanced by great interest of the Open Source community and commercial developers around the globe. This set of OpenRules tutorials was updated to reflect the changes introduced by OpenRules-4.  OpenRules development team wants to thank all our colleagues, customers, and friends for the continuing support and practical recommendations.  

 

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