business rules?

[Paul Holm <pholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe/All,

What key architecture/design elements or software capabilities would you 
see in an IDEAL ERP application relative to business rules?  From your 
experience, do most business rule changes require code changes?  Does 
the language effect this?  (RPG, PHP, Java)

Reason I ask is that I've been involved in several projects lately with 
more to come where the business rules have to be extremely dynamic. 
We've had some success externalizing rules to data driven files but I'd 
like to learn from the community experiences in this area.

Thanks, Paul Holm


Joe Pluta wrote:
>  I'd have to see how the business rules work 
> before I would be willing to recommend something like this, but if they 
> are at least doing something it give much more credence to folks like 




> I'm still skeptical - using a loosely typed language on top of an 
> SQL-only access is a tough nut to crack.  But these folks at least seem 
> to have made the attempt!
>
> Joe