Use rules to trigger external software applications

A custom event rule is used to allow rulebase events to trigger an external software application. This feature is designed to increase the flexibility of the Oracle Policy Modeling product set by enabling integration with inference events.

 

To write a custom event rule use the following syntax for the conclusion line of the rule:

 

For example, if you want to display some events to the user, and log other events at the backend, then a custom event can be useful to provide this additional categorisation. In this instance you could create custom events called DisplayError and LogError.