Explicit representation of business policies

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.