Most significantly, it seems to have succeeded in the fundamentally important goal of reshaping the mindset of programmers, a precondition to widespread adoption of object oriented programming. Physical access to the box is impossible and software...
One of the largest companies already to have signed up with the venture is Lego - building-block favourite of all fledging (object oriented? Instead, it's a term from the 1920s meaning a remarkable person, object or idea.
It advertises reuse, one of the claims of object oriented programming. In these, software was used to represent the objects of the problem and to give the objects behaviour. That could be adapted to commercial problems through the design of...
For the time being though, I am releasing the work to the mercies of other consumers of open source web software, happy with the reassurance that principles I have regularly advocated can be put into practice.
In a complaint filed in US District Court in Texas this week, FireStar Software claims JBoss' Hibernate 3.0 infringes on its patent for linking relational databases with object-oriented software. The patent relates to a "method for interfacing an...
So for example there is a sizeable group of people, myself included, which believes the best principles of object orientation lead to superior solutions in most cases. Computing is about building models of problems we want to solve, and creating...