Oracle Policy Automation 10.2.0
Oracle Policy Automation 10.2.0 is now available via Oracle E-Delivery (http://edelivery.oracle.com/)
This release includes updated media packs for Oracle Policy Modeling and the Oracle Policy Automation runtime for both Java and Microsoft .NET Framework. The updated media pack for Oracle Policy Automation Connector for Siebel 10.2.0 will be available at a later date.
This release includes:
* Translation Support - Excel spreadsheets that contain all the translatable parts of a rulebase, that are updated with the new strings to be translated when you modify attributes, rules or screens.
* Entity Containment - New hierarchical data model that simplifies data collection, debugging, and rule authoring when using relationships.
* Pluggable Determinations Server - New extensibility model for Determinations server that allows you to do pre- or post-processing of incoming data, or do as needed retrieval of data from an external data source, for example.
* Interview Web Service - Create fully customized stateful interview experiences in your GUI technology of choice
* Interview Screen Preview - Preview interview screens without having to go through the entire interview
* Flexible Interviews - Entity-level goals on the summary screen, more control over labels used for entity collection, and more
* "Not Currently Known" operator allows a rule to work out if a question has been asked.
* Additional string functions - as requested by users
* Entity Equality - ability to write rules that compare one entity instance with all the other instances in a collection
* Revised look and feel for Word/Excel 2007 (also applies to Word/Excel 2010)
* New Parsers and Improved Right-to-Left support: Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, German, Finnish, Chinese (Traditional)
* Native Subversion Support: Check files in and out directly from an Apache Subversion repository without a MSSCCAPI connector, and see differences using Word's track changes feature
* Custom Function Enhancements: Support for temporal values and improved natural language syntax.
* Support for self-referential rules, e.g. the person's tax payable = the person's tax payable for the current tax year + for (the prior tax year, the person's tax payable)
* Greater Platform Support: Windows 7 x64, Microsoft Office 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, Oracle VM, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Server 2010
* Enhanced Upgrade wizard: The entity containment and interview screen changes require all existing rulebase projects to be upgraded to the new data model structure.
Please read the release notes, installation guide and security guide included in each media pack for more details.
The release build number is 10.2.0.110.0
1. In the current version, OPM doesn't directly deploy to anything other than local TomCat. You'll need to manually refresh your WebLogic environment with the latest rulebase.
2. I'm not aware of an ADF sample. I assume your goal is to host Web Determinations interviews in an ADF UI?
3. You should use OPA instead of OBR if you need any of the following:
a) Rules in natural language in any of the supported OPA languages (English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc....)
b) Rules in Word/Excel document format that can be easily shared with business users
c) Interactive interviews for guided decision making, where questions can be automatically generated from rules, and screens are shown only as needed to make progress towards an answer
d) Detailed decision reports of which rules and data were used to reach a decision
e) Productized integration with Siebel or SAP
f) Rich test case development and regression testing capabilities
More generally OPA is very good at determinations. I.e. reaching the one right decision given a set of input data. It is not a good fit for optimization problems where the goal is to seek the best outcome given a series of constraints. It is also good at taking a large set of law/policy documents are managing them as interconnected rules. It is possible to efficiently manage thousands of pages of material as an OPM project.
For ADF development, anywhere you have a process that involves a complex decision step, or a calculation that depends on complicated rules that may change frequently or need good business visibility, OPA is a good choice.
Davin.
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If I change the Style for date input to Year, Month and Day edits on an Entity Instance collect screen, it will build and debug correct. The issue is that if I close the project and try to re-open it, the following error will show.
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How can I still change the Style to Year, Month and Day edits (because in Dutch we normally notate dates like dd-mm-yyyy instead of yyyy-mm-dd)? Single Edit (default) is a bit unnatural, because even with all the settings being in Dutch you still need to input the date with yyyy-mm-dd.
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<h1>Environment</h1>
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