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OpenRules Repository Management Tools
Here is a list of rules management tools to choose from:
MS Excel, OpenOffice or Google Spreadsheets for rules creation and editing
Subversion/Tortoise or CVS for version control management when rules repositories are file-based
OpenRules DB with Version Control when rules repositories are kept in a database
OpenRules Explorer - an oncoming graphical OpenRules repository manager.
OpenRules relies on standard commonly used tools (mainly from Open Source) to organize and manage a Business Rules Repository:
As described in the picture above, you can use standard commonly available tools to maintain Business Rules Repositories that were created based on OpenRules approach.
For Version Control you can choose any standard version control system that works within your traditional software development environment. We would recommend using an open source product "Subversion" that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. For business users a friendly web interface is provided by a popular open source product TortoiseSVN. For technical users, it may be preferable to use a Subversion incorporated into Eclipse IDE. One obvious advantage of the suggested approach is the fact that both business rules and related Java/XML files will be handled by the same version control system.
To Create and Edit Rules and other tables presented in Excel-files you can use any standard Spreadsheet Editors such as:
Google Spreadsheets are especially useful for sharing spreadsheet editing - see section Shared Rules Management with Google Spreadsheets.
For technical people responsible for Rules Project Management OpenRules provides an Eclipse Plug-in that allows them to treat Business Rules as natural part of complex Java projects. See more details here.
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