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1997

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Object Access Control To Enable Internet Commerce, Chengqiang Chen Mar 1997

Object Access Control To Enable Internet Commerce, Chengqiang Chen

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Object-Orientation defines components (objects) that encapsulate data and functionality. Modern 00 programming languages have features that specify the degree of encapsulation in much detail. This thesis extends the access control specification capabilities to objects and puts more emphasis on the objects of Internet commerce. A simple and flexible framework of access control is introduced based on the concept of "token". A prototype implemented in Java demonstrates the feasibility of the ideas and related issues.