uProcess rules define the process flow of an object from
one state to another
ØObjects have more than one state
§Financial health
§Physical health
uDeclarative rules won’t work
ØToo many rules
(10,000 – 100,000)
ØRules interact
uTraditional State Transition Engine (STE) diagrams or flowcharts
are similarly hard to manage.
ØFlowcharts are often harder to read than the program
code itself.