View Integration of Object Life-Cycles in Object-Oriented Design

  • Authors:
  • Günter Preuner;Stefan Conrad

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ER '99 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
  • Year:
  • 1999

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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.