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A Services-Oriented Approach to Business Rules Development

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Overview Many organizations are moving from an object-oriented paradigm for managing business processes toward a service-oriented approach; indeed, services are becoming the fundamental elements of application development. At the same time, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has become the de facto standard for orchestrating these services and managing flawless execution of business process. The confluence of these trends is presenting some interesting opportunities for more flexible, cost-effective management of business processes. Most business processes - loan-approval processes being a good example - contain multiple decision points. At these decision points, certain criteria are evaluated. Based on these criteria or business rules, business processes change their behavior. In essence, these business rules drive the business process.

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