Use of DSOM before/after metaclass for enabling object access control

• Published in: Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Platforms pp. 73 - 85
• Main Authors: Benantar, M., Blakley, B., Nadalin, A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1996
• Subjects: Access control; Application software; Computer interfaces; Distributed computing; Hardware; Kernel; Network servers; Permission; Runtime; Software systems

We review the IBM's System Object Model (SOM) and Distributed SOM (DSOM). Then, we introduce DSOM's approach to object access control and contrast it with traditional procedural systems. Subsequently, we elaborate on the problem addressed in this paper that seeks to enable the process of o...