External business rules

External business rules are pieces of business logic that have been externalized in order to permit customizations to the logic to be incorporated into InfoSphere® MDM transaction processing.

While every configuration option, validation requirement, or property file entry could be considered an external rule, this section discusses rules that embody the more complex business logic processing and decision-making.

There are two methods of configuring external business rules:

using the Extension Framework
using the External Rules Framework