Business rules are nothing new. They are used by every organisation to state their practices and policies.
Every business application contains many business rules.
Analysis and design models specify business rules without explicitly indicating them. Actual tools and environments for building business applications, however, provide little or no support to deal explicitly and automatically with business rules during the software life cycle. This workshop focuses on tools and environments that handle the semantic content of business rules in an object-oriented environment. Current software engineering tools provide inadequate support to explicitly and automatically deal with business rules when building object-oriented business applications. To come to a categorisation of available support tools and techniques, we solicit position papers from both academia and industry.