Business Rule Engine (BRE) Blog by Sreedhar Pelluru, Senior Programmer Writer

I will create the sample for using Assert and forward chaining and post it as soon as possible. Thanks the input.

Regards,
Sreedhar

Ubbara, Note that BRE is not licensed separately. It is only avaialble with BizTalk Server at this moment. While installing BizTalk Server, you can, however, select only the rule engine component. In your sceario, you have one web server and an integration server (biztalk). I recommend writing a web service or a .NET remoting component that wraps calls to BRE and then use .NET remoting or SOAP to get th epolicy executed. HTH, Sreedhar

Hi Leonid,

You can find the BRE samples in C:\Program Files\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006\SDK\Samples\Business Rules folder. The documentation for these samples is in Development\Samples in the SDK\Business Rules folder.

In the documentation, you find the architecture/overview of BRE in Planning and Architecture\BizTalk Server Architecture\Runtime Architecture\Business Rule Engine.

Please download the latest documentation at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3294DDAF-9F67-409F-A92D-2F6070DC0D1A&displaylang=en

to see the latest changes I made to the documentation.

In this documentation, you should see most of the BRE documentation at one place \Development\Creating and Using Business Rules.

Let me know if you are looking for more samples/sample code for the BRE.

Regards,

Sreedhar

Yes. You are right. The BRE also uses the same configuration file. Here is a sample Microsoft.RuleEngine configuration section in the BTSNTSvc.exe.config file. Please see Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Help\Development\Creating and Using Business Rules\Rule Engine\Rule Engine Configuration and Tuning Parameters. You can find the latest BTS 06 documentation at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3294DDAF-9F67-409F-A92D-2F6070DC0D1A&displaylang=en.

<configuration>

   <configSections>

       <section name="Microsoft.RuleEngine" type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler" />

   </configSections>

   <Microsoft.RuleEngine

       UpdateServiceHost="localhost"

       UpdateServicePort="3132"

       UpdateServiceName="RemoteUpdateService"

       CacheEntries="32"

       CacheTimeout="3600"

       PollingInterval="60"

       TranslationTimeout="3600"

       CachePruneInterval="60"

       DatabaseServer="(localhost)"

       DatabaseName="BizTalkRuleEngineDb"

       SqlTimeout="-1"

       StaticSupport="1"

   />

</configuration>

You could store the connection string information in appSettings section of the configuration file.

Regards,

Sreedhar