The ruleCore Engine is an event-driven rule engine
that manages and executes reaction rules. The
rules are event-condition-action (ECA) style of
rules. The ruleCore Engine provides capabilities
for detection of complex patterns of events,
called situations. Events can be combined with
logical and temporal operators in order to
describe complex situations. When a situation is
detected, the ruleCore Engine can execute an
action to alert external applications or users of
the situation. The ruleCore Engine is fed with
events through connectors. Currently, connector
implementations exist for plain sockets, XML-RPC,
IBM WebSphere MQ, and TIBCO Rendezvous.
Experimental support exists for running the engine
within Zope and calling Zope methods when a rule
triggers its action.
