What not how the business rules approach to application development is a concise and accessible introduction to this new technology it is written for both managers and technical professionals. Such a breakthrough should revolutionize application development in our industry and take business rules to their fullest expression ronald g ross principal business rule solutions llc executive editor datat what i think date has done is nothing less than to lay out the foundational concepts for the next generation of business logic servers based on predicate logic. What not how the business rules approach to application development is a concise and accessible introduction to this new technology it is written for both managers and technical professionals the book consists of two parts part i presents a broad overview of what business rules are all about part ii then revisits the ideas in part i and shows how they fit squarely into the solid tradition of relational technology topics covered include. In this article i want to show what business rules might look like in practice and highlight some of the advantages of this new way of doing things the information presented here is based on material in my book what not how the business rules approach to application development published this year by addison wesley longman inc