Oracle Business Rules Custom Functions

Hi,
I have an input fact with attributes A,B,C & D and an output fact with E, C & D. (C & D attributes are common in both facts)
Whenever the rule matches, we are asserting new output fact by assigning a constant value to attribute 'E' and also the transactional values to C & D using input fact's C & D attributes.
This way, we are making sure to return the response with matched transactional values.
But we would like to do this by writing a custom function so that user need not assign this mapping manually whenever any new rule creates. User just assigns the constant value to attribute E but values to C & D attributes should be assigned automatically.
Please let me know your suggestions on this.
Regards,
KK

Hi Subha,
Please find the answers inline :
1. In Oracle Business Rules, can one rule invoke another rule?
-- > Yes, once a rule gets executed, it might create more facts, that in turn fire another rule. It all runs around the inout/output facts.
2. Can we make two rule sets dependent on each other?
-- > Yes
3. Can we return data of types String, Boolean, Integer, Double from a rule execution?
-- > Yes, you can use java code with functions.
4. Can we build complex logical AND, OR assertions in Oracle rules?
-- > Java programming language is needed for this..
5. Can we use custom business objects (not Java data types) within a rule?
-- > Dont think so
Regards
Anirudh Pucha

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