System, method and article of manufacture for providing an attribute system with primitive support of dynamic and evolvable roles in support of fluid and integrative application development

摘要

A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for managing data items. One or more roles are defined with each role comprising a set of attributes. The roles may then be then associated with zero, one, or more data items. The data item may be assigned a value for each of the attributes of the role(s) that have been associated with the data item.