K-Site Rules at the RuleML Challenge 2009

There exist a great number of business rules engines in the market, each one with its own rules language. As a result, the need of a standard rules definition language is obvious. In this demo paper, the application of a combination of standard business rules languages to develop a business rules management tool, K-Site Rules, is explained. The main goals of this tool are: first, to integrate the development process for business rules in the software development lifecycle and, second, to make this development independent of rule engine products. K-Site Rules does not include its own rule engine implementation but acts as a broker to the preferred rule engine. In this way, business rules can be reused across different rule engines (which can change because of economical issues, performance issues, etc.) and through different projects in the company. The K-Site Rules tool is part of ITECBAN, a project devoted to the definition of a new platform core for banking applications.