Defining rule project references

You use project references to make your business rule application more modular.

About this task

A rule project can reference other rule projects. All items in the referenced rule project are then available to you for use in your current rule project.

Rule project references are a way to make your business rule application modular, by reusing rule project items such as business object models or templates in several rule projects. The decision service approach to creating your rule project hierarchy is perfectly suited to handle the dependencies of the rule projects it contains.

You can either define rule project references when you create a decision service, or add them later by using the rule project Properties dialog.

Procedure

To add project references:

  1. In the Rule Explorer view, select the rule project, and on the Project menu click Properties.
  2. Click Project References to display a list of rule projects that you can reference.
  3. Select each rule project that you want to reference and then click OK.

Results

Your rule project references are now defined.