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There is a widely held view that production rules (i.e. rules following the E-C-A paradigm) controlled by a database management system represent an appropriate technology for the implementation of business rules. This paper identifies some serious limitations in the scope of this active database paradigm and proposes an alternative technology based on the concept of the provision of rule services within a distributed component architecture. The paper argues that a distributed object architecture enables the power of the E-C-A paradigm to reach beyond the confines of the single database and provide a generalized architecture for exible, controlled implementation of business rules.
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Spencer, B. (1998). Business Rules vs. Database Rules A Position Statement. In: Demeyer, S., Bosch, J. (eds) Object-Oriented Technology: ECOOP’98 Workshop Reader. ECOOP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49255-0_42
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