Design And Implementation Of An Automobile Insurance Quote System Based-On Business Rule

With the globalizing market economics, the automobile insurance business logics need to be adjusted and modified timely in response to the market requirement. The automobile insurance quote system can be flexible by using business rule management and timely adjust insurance rules and business policies. Although the business rule management technology intends to be more and more mature and stable, there comes a hot topic how the business rule management integrates closely with the business system.The paper states simply the basic principle and methodology of business rule management technology and business rule character, and by using the approach of business rule management, the automobile insurance quote system is designed and implemented. The paper also raises several crucial issues and their solutions during integrating the system with business rules management. The first of all, it is necessary how to differ business data and business rules, and a related criterion is that data which is only used by the same system or modular and does not increase dramatically with the business advancing will be regards as the business rule, otherwise business data. Secondly, some important rulesets and the relevant relationship should be identified based on organizing system requirements. The system should adopt the suitable rule engine invoking to decouple the architecture of the application system, increase flexibility according to the system environment. Next, the suitable rule testing solution can ensure that the business rule is authorized and managed correctly. As well the paper gives the business rule lifecycle management solution during centralizing insurance rules and policies. The users, roles and permission are all defined in the solution, and business rule lifecycle also is consolidated based on the business rule status. The solution defines the business rule deployment process based on the permission and business rule status.The last, the paper addresses the design and implementation of the automobile insurance quote system based on business rule in detail, including the requirement analysis, architecture design, functional design and demonstration.