Integrating Business Rules into Automated Business Processes

摘要

A method for integrating business rules into automated business processes comprising identifying an entity affected by a data update initiated by a step of an automated business process. The method further comprises accessing a rule registry comprising a plurality of business rules, each business rule corresponding to one or more entities, and determining which business rules in the rule registry to evaluate by determining from the plurality of business rules one or more business rules that correspond to the entity affected by the data update. The method further comprises, for each of the business rules determined to correspond to the entity affected by the data update, evaluating the business rule in context to determine whether performing the data update would violate the business rule and, if it is determined that performing the data update would violate the business rule, raising an exception in accordance with the violated business rule.