Our applications are complicated enough without adding any more. Here's a way to think about your objects that allows you to dramatically simplify your object model, provided you're willing to turn ...

(1) (Document Object Model) See DOM. (2) A description of an object-oriented architecture, including the details of the object structure, interfaces between objects and other object-oriented features ...

It seems like only last year that I was saying the same thing, but my third book, Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML – Theory and Practice, is just heading into copy-edit: it’s due for release ...

When it comes to inheritance, relational database theory and object-oriented programming have more in common than you might think. Understanding that overlap is critical in designing the object model ...

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One of the benefits claimed for the Naked Objects approach (see article 1) is that it helps in the capture and modeling of business requirements. There is a widespread misconception that modeling ...

This article proposes an object-oriented analysis (OOA) technique based on the unified modeling language (UML). The technique emphasizes its OOA process, that is composed of the following activities: ...