Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es>
Date: 27 May 2004 04:35:17 -0700
Message-ID: <e4330f45.0405270335.49b7f19e_at_posting.google.com>


"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message news:<c938ce$7mb$1_at_news.netins.net>...

> > >Metadata is code or specifies code
> >
> > A blunder!
> >
> > Metadata is data and not code.
>
> If you think of code as only procedural, then you would be correct, however,
> metadata serves as "parameters" within processes, thereby altering various
> functions -- it is code (as well as data). Again, this could be a matter of
> definitions.

Of course all is a matter of definitions, but you are confusing code with the rules implemented by the code.

If you transform apples into marmalade you will have marmalade and not apples. If you transform code in data then you will have data and not code.

> > >Business Rules specify code as data
> >
> > Another nonsense. You don't talk seriously.
>
> Yes, I'm very serious about this.

Then you are incredibly sloppy with the language.

> I gather that you would state that
> business rules are strictly code?

Business rules are strictly rules.

> If so, what if the software I write
> accepts business rules written in Java?

Then you will have an application that is able to process Java code.

Regards
  Alfredo Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 13:35:17 CEST

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