OpenL Tablets is a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) and Business Rules Engine (BRE) based on tables presented in Excel and Word documents. Using unique concepts, OpenL Tablets facilitates treating business documents containing business logic specifications as executable source code. Since the format of tables used by OpenL Tablets is familiar to business users, OpenL Tablets bridges a gap between business users and developers, thus reducing costly enterprise software development errors and dramatically shortening the software development cycle.
In a very simplified overview, OpenL Tablets can be considered as a table processor that extracts tables from Excel and Word documents and makes them accessible from Java programs.
OpenL Tablets is built using the OpenL technology providing a framework for development of different language configurations.
The major advantages of using OpenL Tablets are as follows:
OpenL Tablets removes the gap between software implementation and business documents, rules, and policies.
Business rules become transparent to Java developers.
For example, decision tables are transformed into Java methods, and data tables become accessible as Java data arrays through the familiar getter and setter JavaBeans mechanism. The transformation is performed automatically.
OpenL Tablets verifies syntax and type errors in all project document data, providing convenient and detailed error reporting.
OpenL Tablets is able to directly point to a problem in an Excel or Word document.
OpenL Tablets provides calculation explanation capabilities, enabling expansion of any calculation result by pointing to source arguments in the original documents.
OpenL Tablets provides cross-indexing and search capabilities within all project documents.
OpenL Tablets supports the .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm and .doc, .docx file formats.