You run the completed version of the decision service. It contains the changes that you make in the tutorial, and produces the results that you can expect at the end of the tutorial.
Tip: If you want to refer to the completed decision service while you are going through the tutorial, use the answer and start projects in different Eclipse workspaces.
Procedure
- Start Rule Designer on your computer in the en_US (American English) locale (see Installing Rule Designer).
- Close the Eclipse welcome page if it is open.
- Open the Rule perspective if it is not open. Click Window > Open Perspective > Other > Rule to open the perspective.
- Import the answer project that you downloaded from GitHub:
a. In the Rule perspective, click File > Import.
b. In the Import wizard, expand General > Existing Projects into Workspace, and click Next.
c. Choose Select root directory, and browse to <InstallDir>/answer. InstallDir is the name of the directory to which you downloaded the answer project from GitHub.
d. Click Select All, and in Options, click Copy projects into workspace.
e. Click Finish.
The Rule Explorer displays six projects:
The Java™ project loan-validation-xom defines an execution object model (XOM) for rule execution. The main decision service, Loan Validation Service, references the other projects.
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In the Run menu, select Run Configuration.
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Expand Decision Operation, and click the run loan validation configuration:
- Click Run. The Console view displays the following results, which show that the input data is valid and the loan is approved:
In the next task, you run the faulty version of the decision service and see the errors in the output.
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