Relations as semantic constructs in an object-oriented language
OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Controlling propagation of operations using attributes on relations
OOPSLA '88 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
A laboratory for teaching object oriented thinking
OOPSLA '89 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
DSM: an object-relationship modeling language
OOPSLA '89 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Roles: conceptual abstraction theory and practical language issues
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue on subjectivity in object-oriented systems
The object data standard: ODMG 3.0
The object data standard: ODMG 3.0
A semantic object-oriented data access system
Information Systems
Adaptive Object-Oriented Software: The Demeter Method with Propagation Patterns
Adaptive Object-Oriented Software: The Demeter Method with Propagation Patterns
Smalltalk-80: The Language
A Relationship Mechanism for a Strongly Typed Object-Oriented Database Programming Language
VLDB '91 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Associations as a Language Construct
TOOLS '99 Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
First-class relationships in an object-oriented language
ECOOP'05 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
A relational model of object collaborations and its use in reasoning about relationships
ECOOP'07 Proceedings of the 21st European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Implementing relationships using Affinity
Proceedings of the Workshop on Relationships and Associations in Object-Oriented Languages
Implementing UML associations in Java: a slim code pattern for a complex modeling concept
Proceedings of the Workshop on Relationships and Associations in Object-Oriented Languages
International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and Ownership in Object-Oriented Programming
Modular reasoning about invariants over shared state with interposed data members
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Programming languages meets program verification
A unified approach to modeling and programming
MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems: Part I
Verifying multi-object invariants with relationships
Proceedings of the 25th European conference on Object-oriented programming
Content over container: object-oriented programming with multiplicities
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming & software
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Association is an important relationship that is supported in both UML and entity relationship database modeling tools. However, there is no language or library support in current object-oriented languages for implementing an association relationship. Instead, a complex implementation using references or collections of references must be handcrafted and laboriously maintained each time an association relationship is needed. In this paper, we develop an approach to supporting the association relationship through the design of a reusable class library that hides most of the complexity and guarantees that the consistency of the relationship is maintained automatically. Our current library implementation in C# draws on generic types with runtime type instantiation, runtime reflection on type parameters, annotations on classes, and runtime code generation. This set of language features seems to be necessary to provide effective support for association relationships.