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Insight

This article is based upon the book Time Based Security by Winn Schwartau (Interpact Press, 1999).

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a new programming paradigm that explicitly promotes separation of concerns. In the context of security, this would mean that the main program should not need to encode security information; instead, it should be moved into a separate, independent piece of code.

Domain

Market Mechanisms

Assertion #44

Ultimately, most capital employed by successful firms will be human, not physical, and it will flow, like financial capital, to its most productive use.


"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

-- Conrad Brean
(played by Robert De Niro in the 1997 movie Wag The Dog)

The Cutter Technology Trends Council Assertion #39 states, "We will see a new class of applications that we don't even know how to characterize yet (e.g., Zaplets)." This assertion will be explored fully in a future Council Opinion; the purpose of this Executive Update is to provide information about the Zaplet technology.