Explicit representation of business policies

Abstract

In traditional programming, business policies are embedded in program code. This form of representing business policies has its problem because policies are disintegrated into low-level program code statements that project more of the control flow aspect of a system rather than the semantic of the policies. This paper argues that business policies should be explicitly represented in a system. The paper examines business policies and its relevance in the context of system specification and suggests an approach to representing policies explicitly in classes.