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tools have for user extensions. We have seen this to be true in the past, but
with today’s more advanced products the past limitations concerning front-end
display of repository extensions are less likely to be a problem.
13.3.5 Business Metadata about Business Rules
As we have seen, business rules are business metadata as long as they are expressed
in the language of the business. Business rules provide the context behind the
data: They indicate the rules that are tied to the data elements. But business rules
also have their own associated business metadata: information about the rules
themselves, such as the authority behind the rule (who ...