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March 13, 2007More on decision services
Interesting article by Larry Goldberg on A SOA-based Business Rules Approach: Decision Services today. I am increasingly of the opinion that Decision Services, and not business rules, are the essential component. I the same way that a BPMS uses tasks to build a business process, I think we need to think about using rules to build a business decision. A couple of related posts:
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CommentsHi James,
I see why you think Decision Services are important. But, I find myself disagreeing when you discount Business Rules in favor of Decision Services.
A Decision Service, as you have been describing it is a reusable ,deployable unit to be used as part of a business process. And I would like to think of it as an higher order architectural artifact.
If you take the example of a Decision Service, like a Product Pricing Service, the interface is fairly constant, but it is the business rules that define behavior.
And not emphasizing on the business rules might indicate that these business rules need not be externalized and managed? I am sure that is not what you intended to say in your post.
Posted by: Rajgo at March 14, 2007 05:38 AM
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