Tutorial - Basic Rule Modeling in Corticon Studio

The lifecycle of a Decision Service

Corticon provides a simple yet powerful methodology for modeling business rules. The methodology involves the following steps:

This methodology is iterative. You repeat steps 2 to 6 when rules change.

This tutorial provides an introduction to business rule modeling in Corticon Studio. You will learn how to:

  • Capture rules from business specifications,
  • Model the rules,
  • Analyze them for logical errors, and,
  • Test the execution of your rules

In Corticon, you do all of this without programming.

Your goal in the tutorial is to create a Decision Service. A Decision Service is a group of rules that captures the logic of a single decision-making step in a business process. The Decision Service that you build may be deployed as an executable, standards-based service that can be made available to other software applications using Java, .NET, REST, or SOAP messaging, and also as a serverless package for JavaScript deployments.

This tutorial is designed for hands-on use. We recommend that you follow along in Corticon Studio, using the instructions and illustrations that are provided. If you haven’t installed Corticon Studio yet, install it now. Click here to download the Corticon Studio test drive.

This tutorial includes two iterations through the lifecycle, including an initial implementation and a subsequent change cycle.

Note: Deployment is not covered in this tutorial. For information on deploying rule models, refer to the Corticon Deployment topics in the Corticon documentation set.