View Integration of Object Life-cycles in Object-oriented Design
- Authors
- G. Preuner, S. Conrad
- Technical Report
- TR0002 (March, 2000)
- Report number
- 00.02
- Resources
- Copy (In order to obtain the copy please send an email with subject TR0002 to dke.win@jku.at)
Abstract
Object-oriented database schemas are often defined by several future users of the planned database, where each user defines a schema representing his/her view on the database; the complete database schema is defined by integrating these views in a subsequent step.
Behavior of objects is often defined at two levels of detail: at the level of methods and at the level of object life-cycles that represent the overall behavior of objects during their life time.
This paper presents an approach to integrate views of object life-cycles to a complete object life-cycle of an object type. We will particularly consider the problem that different users know about parts of the object life-cycle at different levels of detail and often do not consider exactly the same set of entities.