Role-based access control model as applied to object-oriented applications

The article presents an overview of modern approaches to setting up of security and allocation of user access rights in applications of different architecture and the author's approach to allocation of rights to classes, class attributes and objects, complying with specific criteria. It is achieved with the use of hierarchy of classes, the composition and structure of which are described in detail herein. Concluding part of the article contains description of already developed applications, in which the author employed the model.