Achieving business flexibility by empowering business component system with business rules technology: Executable rules

A business component system typically consists of many application components supporting business activities across multiple business units of the enterprise. All these components form integrated platform with embedded business processes that are customized to user requirements during system implementation. Integration of business rules technology with business component system greatly improves the system adaptability. The model of executable rules and framework for integration of business rules with application components are discussed in this paper. The proposed model is designed in alignment with a formal basis of business rules and ensures the required flexibility for composing executable business rules with application components at a system level.