Dear All,
I am looking for helps/pointers on setting up a custom governance process for my rules using Drools & Guvnor (5.4 runing on Tomcat 6.x). The basic use cases are as below-
1. My rules will go through multiple stages in lifecyle -> 1. analysis (status: draft -> approved/cancelled) 2. Development (status: draft -> final) 3. Testing (status: testing -> final) 4. Production (status: production -> hold)
2. Correspondingly there will be broadly 4 roles -> analyst, developer, tester, admin
3. The workflow will be sequential i.e. analyst user will create a new rule specification with status "draft". Only when status of the rule artifact is made "approved", the developer role will see that there is need for a rule to be developed (needs some kind of notification)
4. Rules will be categorized using taxonomy (LOB centric e.g. Mortgage, Retirement); above roles for will have branch specific view (e.g. an analyst user for Mortgage can only see/edit mortgage rules, not retirement ones)
5. Roles will have their own view i.e. analyst should not see technical artifacts for a rule, similarly developer should see the rule specification artifact (a word doc) in read-only mode
I have gone through Guvnor user guide and admin guide, which provides brief instruction on how to approach such need with authentication-authorization, and guvnor features like categories, status, packaes, user and permission mapping. I am however unable to achieve exactly the above kind of workflow by customizing these features.
Is there a clear step-by-step guide somewhere? Have someone used drools & guvnor combination to manage large number of rules with compelet lifecyle governance? Does it require some other software component to achieve the aboev type of requirement?
Thanks a lot in advance for nay pointers/helps.
regards, sibendu
