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Business Rule Beans (BRBeans)

The Business Rule Beans (BRBeans) framework extends the scope of Websphere Application Server Enterprise Edition to support business applications that externalize their business rules. You can use BRBeans to create and modify rules to keep pace with your complex business practices so that your application's core behavior, and user interface objects remain intact and untouched.

Rule externalization is accomplished by extending the application analysis and design processes to identify the points of variability in application behavior. These are called trigger points: small pieces of code that interface with the BRB trigger point framework to run business rules during application execution.

The user can also employ standard Java development tools to attach BRBeans to either Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) or ordinary Java objects. Programming a unique new rule implementation in Java is usually a simple process, made easier by the set of pre-defined rule implementors provided that can be used to create your own business rules.

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