OSB integration with JRules through SOAP or EJB

First, let's get familiar with this new baby, JRules; this can be done simply by playing with her.

Documentation:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/brjrules/v7r0/index.jsp

Download JRules 7.0 binaries (including Tomcat, Derby etc):

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=swg-iwilogjt70&S_PKG=dl&S_TACT=104CBW71<=en_US&cp=UTF-8&dlmethod=http


(you need to have an account with IBM, it's free anyhow)


You can deploy JRules to WebLogic - it's only a bunch of EARs. In this case you access this way:
http://localhost:7001/res

The Console gives you:

Explorer - this contains the Navigator, to display the RuleApps and the Decision Services
You can Create a RuleApp, add RuleSet to a RuleApp by provinding a Ruleset Archive.

Decision Warehouse

Diagnostics

Server Info


In WebLogic console, view the JNDI tree and you will see this:

Binding Name: eis.XUConnectionFactory

Class: ilog.rules.res.xu.cci.IlrXUConnectionFactory


Unfortunately the JRules manual says:

"EJB3 bindings are supported for the JBoss 4.2/5.0, WebSphere 7;0 application servers."

which doesn't sound good if you use WebLogic.


Anyway ilog/rules/res/xu/cci/IlrXUConnectionFactory.class is in these 2 JARs:

C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphereILOGJRules702\executionserver\lib\jrules-res-execution.jar:
C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphereILOGJRules702\executionserver\lib\jrules-res-session-java.jar:

Here
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/brjrules/v7r0m2/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.ilog.jrules.doc/Content/Business_Rules/Documentation/_pubskel/JRules/ps_JRules_Global1674.html

it mentions:
"how to execute a simple stateless rule session on a Java EE application server...by using a Java client."

and here

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/brjrules/v7r0m2/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.ilog.jrules.doc/Content/Business_Rules/Documentation/_pubskel/JRules/ps_JRules_Global308.html

a promising tutorial on how to invoke JRules from WebLogic Workshop.

WIP....