Creating solutions

The first step to develop a Decision Server Insights solution is to create a solution project in Eclipse. The solution project is the container for the agents and the business model.

About this task

A solution is likely to be developed by a team of technical users, which might include a solution developer, a solution designer, and an integration developer. Together, they identify and define how the solution is implemented and what it composes.

  • The entities and events in the solution model.
  • The endpoints that represent the interactions with the outside world. For example, an HTTP request or a JMS message.
  • The connectivity infrastructure that is needed to receive inbound events and send outbound events.
  • The mapping of the business logic into a set of agents that are bound to specific entities.
  • Solution projects
    The solution project is the starting point for building your event driven application. To design your solution, you create a solution project in Insight Designer, and then export the solution to an archive file that you can deploy to the server.
  • Creating a solution project
    Create a solution project along with a project to contain the business object model.
  • Solution map
    You use the solution map to view the status of goals and tasks in a solution project.
  • Adding and removing projects
    You can add or remove projects from the solution, by modifying the references in the properties of the solution project.
  • Adding solution properties
    You can add custom properties to a solution project to override solution-wide defaults, or to provide information for an agent to pass along to an external system. For example, if your agent needs to connect to a database server, you can store the connection settings in a custom properties file in the solution project.
  • Adding solution properties for SmartCloud Analytics
    Capture solution-specific log messages for analysis in SmartCloud Analytics by adding properties to your solution properties file.
  • Adding solution properties for predictive scoring agents
    Provide the required credentials to connect to a scoring service by adding properties to your solution properties file.
  • Modifying the solution time zone
    You can modify or set the solution time zone. Edit the solution manifest file and add a specific header to specify the time zone for the solution.
  • Controlling how long each event is retained by the solution
    To control how events are stored in system memory or the backing database, set the event time horizon by adding the maxHorizon or eventAggregateMaxHorizon property to the solution properties file.
Parent topic: Developing solutions