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Relations as semantic constructs in an object-oriented language

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James RumbaughAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 22, Issue 12

Pages 466 - 481

https://doi.org/10.1145/38807.38850

Published: 01 December 1987 Publication History

Abstract

The relation as a semantic construct in an object-oriented language clearly expresses associations and constraints among objects which would otherwise be buried in implementation code. The externalization of references between objects permits a symmetric, non-redundant conceptual model which merits its own special notation and predefined operations. The object-relation model, which combines the object-oriented model with the entity-relationship model from data base theory, is particularly useful for designing and partitioning systems of interrelated objects. Relations can be implemented efficiently using hash tables. The model proposed here has been fully implemented in an object-oriented language written by the author which has been used to implement several production applications.

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 22, Issue 12

Dec. 1987

493 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/38807

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Richard L. Wexelblat

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OOPSLA '87: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
December 1987
493 pages
ISBN:0897912470
DOI:10.1145/38765
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