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Class Diagrams

Overview The class diagram is a central modeling technique that runs through nearly all object-oriented methods. This diagram describes the types of objects in the system and various kinds of static relationships which exist between them. There are three principal kinds of relationships which are important: associations (a customer may rent a number of videos), subtypes (a nurse is a kind of person) and aggregation (an engine is part of an aircraft). The various OO methods all use different (and often conflicting) terminology for these concepts, this is extremely frustrating but inevitable: OO languages are just as inconsiderate. It is in this area that the UML will bring some of its greatest benefits in simplifying these different diagrams. In this section I will use the UML terms as my main terminology, and relate to other terms as I go along.

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Publisher	Addison-Wesley	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	18
Format	White Papers
Topics	Object-Oriented, UML

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