Using InRule with Microsoft® Windows Workflow Foundation
InRule extends the power of Windows Workflow Foundation by providing rule technology
for business logic automation: Rule authoring and verification designed for business
and technical users with Business Language Authoring and centralized rule management.
Microsoft Windows® Workflow Foundation
One of the core capabilities in the .NET Framework, Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation
is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow-enabled
applications on Windows. It provides a designer for Visual Studio to enabled both
developers and non-developers to define custom workflow processes graphically.
- irAuthor enables both
developers and non-technical users to author, test, and maintain business rules.
- irStudio, for creating
and editing schemas and rules within Microsoft Visual Studio.
- irVerify allows users
of all technical abilities to test rules via a rich, interactive interface
- irCatalog manages rule
check-in/check-out, versioning, sharing, and permissions across systems.
All of InRule’s advanced rule authoring, testing, and management capabilities are
available to Windows Workflow Foundation, simply by adding an InRule activity to
a Workflow
InRule provides an out-of-the-box WF activity, making calls to InRule from a WF
workflow as easy dropping the activity onto the flow and setting some properties.
irAuthor also provides the ability to execute a Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
workflow as a result of rule execution through the Execute WF Workflow action. The
Execute Workflow Action enables rule authors to execute existing WF workflows to
populate additional data, take an action based on a decision, etc., making it easy
to integrate workflow capabilities into a rule application.
