Tutorial: Decision Tables in Excel
This is a modified sample of the work done by www.baeldung.com, credit goes to them.
Decision tables are a "precise yet compact" (ref. Wikipedia) way of representing conditional logic, and are well suited to business level rules.
Drools supports managing rules in a spreadsheet format. Supported formats are Excel (XLS), and CSV, which means that a variety of spreadsheet programs can be used for defining the business rules.
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