Rule Builder > Introduction to the Rule Builder > What is the Rule Builder?

The Rule Builder provides an authoring and test environment for the business logic part of your business rule application. The Rule Builder is a customizable and fully integrated graphical environment that enables you to view and edit the elements contained in a repository, and develop, manage, debug, test, and maintain your business rules.

Using the Rule Builder you can model the business rule editing environment by setting up libraries of rule, decision table, and decision tree templates. You can then use the Rule Builder to organize the repository into projects, rule packages, and libraries that can be shared by multiple users.

In addition, you can create ruleflows that control the execution sequence of the rules in a ruleset using a dedicated graphical Ruleflow Editor. The Rule Builder enables you to manage all the elements in the repository.

You can write your rules in a rule language of your choice. The Rule Builder provides a set of sophisticated syntactic or text-based editors to write and modify them. You can use the Rule Builder to test their execution, and access various debugging, profiling, and tracing information. These tools are integrated into the Rule Builder to simplify the process of developing a business rule application.

When you have written your rules and tested them, they can be deployed using a RuleApp. You can use the Rule Builder to create a RuleApp that can deploy one or more rulesets on a Business Rule Execution Server (BRE Server).


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