Summary

The getting started tutorial introduced you to Decision Server.

The tutorial showed you the following modules:

Rule Designer: An Eclipse-based editor for designing and developing business rule applications.
Rule Execution Server: An application server for running and monitoring business logic.

The tutorial also taught you how to publish a rule project to Decision Center. You used Decision Server to externalize the business logic of your rule application to make it available to business users.

Use the links in the following table to learn more about the tasks in the tutorial. The table provides links to related information in the rest of the documentation.

Tasks	Related information	Related tutorials
Task 1: Designing the main rule project in the decision service	Designing business object models Setting up rule projects	Tutorial: Defining a vocabulary
Task 2: Orchestrating the rules	Orchestrating ruleset execution	Tutorial: Creating your first ruleflow
Task 3: Authoring rules	Authoring business rules	Tutorial: Editing decision tables
Task 4: Testing and debugging		Tutorial: Debugging a ruleset
Task 5: Deploying and running your ruleset		Tutorial: Managing RuleApps
Task 6: Monitoring	Monitoring and managing the server Monitoring and managing Decision Warehouse Monitoring ruleset execution	Tutorial: Running a hosted transparent decision service
Task 7: Publishing to Decision Center	Synchronizing from Designer Managing changes

Restarting the tutorial

To do this tutorial again, switch to a workspace that is new and empty, and see Restoring sample databases.

Stopping the sample server

To stop the sample server, see Starting and stopping the sample server.