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Using the Rule Management Application (RMA) - overview

The Rule Management Application (RMA) is a simple tool that assists the user in the high level administration of rules and rule folders. This includes the capability to create, modify, delete, import or export rules or rule folders. The RMA tool can be used initially by the programmer to define rules interactively, and then by the domain analyst for rule management tasks.

The graphic user interface main window for the RMA is the Rules Browser.

The column on the left side of the Rule Browser window shows a nested hierarchy of all existing rule folders. Click on one of these folders to display the rules it contains. The names of these folders appear in the right column.

Navigate as you would in a typical file-management browser.

RMA is designed to be a very general purpose tool for interactive management of rules. Many users of BRBeans will want to write their own user interface that is tailored more specifically for the domain in which they work. For instance, a domain-specific user interface may be able to provide more help to the user in the task of managing rules than a general purpose tool such as RMA. Users wishing to write their own user interface can refer to the BRBeans Javadoc.