Conditional vs Business rule transitions

Any thoughts on when I should be using a business rule transition instead of a conditional? Any need to use this yet?
I understand the primary distinction is "dynamic" but am having a hard time getting my head around the difference without an example.
Cheers,
Andrew
Andrew

Andrew,
I think business rules are mostly useful when modeling a condition that is likely to change, and you want to make it easy to change the condition on-the-fly, without having to change and re-deploy the process.
A simple example is when there is a transition that must be followed only when a variable value is above some predefined value (for example, a manager must approve all orders above $ 10K).
If using a business rule, this "10K" value can be easily changed as needed.
The ALBPM documentation has some guidelines on when to use Business Rules (section "When to use Dynamic Business Rules):
http://edocs.bea.com/albsi/docs60/studio/designer/business_rules_editor/t_Using_Dynamic_Business_Rules.html
My example is taken from the one in the document describing ALBPM 6.0 new features:
http://edocs.bea.com/albsi/docs60/resources/ALBPM6.0_NewFeaturesOverview.pdf
regards,
Eugenio

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