Object-oriented systems are usually partitioned into layers of related responsibilities and only dependencies in one direction are allowed, from higher layers (more specific, less reusable) to lower ...

In Java, the ORM layer converts Java classes and objects so that they can be stored and managed in a relational database. By default, the name of the object being persisted becomes the name of the ...

Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design. By Leonard Slipp ; February 5, 2001; ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory ...

“A design pattern describes the classes and interacting objects used to solve a general design problem in a specific context.”. Some developers define a design pattern as a class-encoded ...