Decision services

Decision Server provides tools for designing, developing, and deploying decision services. Rule Designer is an Eclipse-based development environment in which you can develop and integrate decision services. Rule Execution Server provides the runtime environment for running and monitoring decision services.

The following diagram illustrates the different tools that you use to develop and deploy a decision service as a RuleApp, and the tasks you must do for this development.

Illustration: Decision services based on Java or XML

Work on a decision service starts in Rule Designer, where developers create the language for expressing rules, and projects for decision services. The developers deploy decision services to the execution server for testing, but they can also integrate a decision service with an application. When a decision service is ready for collaborative development with business users, it is published to Decision Center. Changes made in Decision Center can be synchronized with Rule Designer.

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Design
In Rule Designer, you design the granularity of your decision services and the contract between client applications and the decision service. You also design the model and vocabulary for authoring business rules.
 Designing projects for rule authoring
Author
You create an initial set of business rules, and set up some tools to facilitate rule authoring for business users.
 Authoring business rules
Monitor
You administer and monitor business rule applications by using the tools that are provided with Rule Execution Server.
 Managing rule execution