Patterns: Integrating WebSphere ILOG JRules with IBM Software  (English, Paperback, Ian Vanstone, Duncan Clark, Kallol Ghosh, Sriram Balakrishnan, Andy Ritchie, Daniel Donnelly, Phil Coxhead, Nicolas Peulvast, Daniel Millwood)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how the IBM WebSphere® ILOG JRules product can be used in association with other IBM middleware products to deliver better solutions.

This book can help architects position a business rule management system (BRMS) in their existing infrastructures to deliver the value propositions that the business needs.

This book can also help developers design and integrate JRules with those middleware products (focussing on WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Message Broker and IBM CICS®) and help to illustrate common integration patterns and practices for these products.

About the Author
Andy Ritchie is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM. His area of focus is BPM and Application Integration solutions, integrating with Business Rule Management Systems. He is a Development Architect who often works with IBM services and technical sales teams on solutions and methodologies. With more than 24 years in IBM, he has a broad and varied experience, from architecting IBM SOA middleware solutions in multiple industries involving SAP applications with a specific focus on BPM and SOA service governance areas. Previously, he spent 18 years in IBM Development on ISDN, X.25 communications and Speech/IVR products.

Sriram Balakrishnan is a Senior Managing Consultant with IBM Global Business Services®. He has more than 17 years of experience in architecting and implementing enterprise-wide, mission-critical systems. He holds a Master of Technology in Software Engineering from the National University of Singapore. His current areas of expertise include business process management using service-oriented architecture and J2EE custom development.

Duncan Clark is an IT Architect in the ILOG® Synergies team at IBM Hursley Park development laboratory in the UK. He currently specializes in integrations between ILOG Business Rule Management Systems and Tivoli® products, and their application in industry-focused solutions. These solutions include applying decisions to service availability and performance applications, based on Tivoli Netcool® Impact and making smarter asset life cycle decisions with Tivoli Maximo®. This work concentrates on how to realize smarter decision-making in customer solutions by applying repeatable patterns of product integration. Prior to this work, Duncan led the Governance and Policy architecture for WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.

Phil Coxhead is a Services Consultant in the IBM Software Services for WebSphere organization working as part of the Worldwide Technology Practice. Phil is a recognized specialist in the enterprise service bus (ESB) domain, having
spent over 10 years working directly with customers on a wide range of business integration and ESB solutions and within IBM product development teams in the middleware space. Phil’s most recent development role was as a Development Team Lead responsible for the new messaging component of WebSphere Application Server Version 6. Prior to this role, he worked in a Pre-Sales role, assisting customers using WebSphere MQ and Broker products in Business Integration proposals and scenarios. Previously, he was a Team Lead in WebSphere MQ Development where he was a member of the original group that designed and developed the early releases of WebSphere Message Broker. Phil is also a frequent speaker at IBM customer and internal conferences.

Daniel Donnelly is an Advisory Software Engineer at the IBM Hursley Park development laboratory in the UK. He is currently part of the WebSphere ILOG team, working on integrating WebSphere ILOG products with the rest of the IBM product portfolio. Prior to this role, he was a member of the CICS development team, where he spent eight years coding and testing for CICSPlex® System Manager.

Kallol Ghosh is a Senior Consultant at IBM for the BRMS product line working with the WebSphere Services team in the UK. He has more than 10 years of experience of delivering bespoke application in various business domains,
including more than five years of experience in implementing smart automated decision-making services using ILOG JRules. He also has more than eight years of experience in the manufacturing industry. He has a degree in Engineering from Calcutta University in India.

Daniel Millwood is a Software Developer working within the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® development team in England. He has worked at IBM for 15 years on messaging and transaction processing products. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Southampton University. His areas of expertise include WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, and CICS TS. In his role with CICS TS, Daniel has focused on the integration of CICS TS with other products, using technologies such as web services.

Nicolas Peulvast is a Software Engineer on the IBM ILOG Business Rule Management Systems at the Software Lab at IBM in France. He has over a decade of experience developing Java™ Enterprise applications. He worked on
the Enterprise Integration team as a Developer in charge of MDB and HTDS. For the past two years, he has worked on the Rules for .Net product as a Software Architect, and participates in multiple aspects of the product, including Decision and Validation Service and Rule Execution Server for .Net product. He has a Master’s degree in artificial intelligence systems.

Ian Vanstone is an Advisory Software Engineer, based at IBM Hursley, UK. Ian joined the WebSphere MQ development team in 2000, where he focused on messaging intercommunication and availability architectures, before moving to his current role as an Integration Specialist in the IBM Software Group Federated Integration Test team in 2008.

Table of Contents
Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. What is business rules value proposition
Chapter 2. Business rule management system (BRMS)
Chapter 3. Typical BRMS solutions

Part 2. Patterns and scenarios
Chapter 4. Scenario and the solution architecture
Chapter 5. Identifying the patterns in general solutions
Chapter 6. Existing applications
Chapter 7. Business processes
Chapter 8. Connectivity infrastructure and messaging

Part 3. Realizing the scenarios
Chapter 9. Integrating CICS applications
Chapter 10. Integrating WebSphere Process Server with JRules
Chapter 11. Integrating JRules with WebSphere Message Broker

Appendix A. Additional material