The Java Language Specification clearly dismisses the existence of a primordial interface in a direct comparison to the primordial class java.lang.Object. Conceptually, however, the language acts ...

The word polymorphism comes from the Greek for “many forms.” Most Java developers associate the term with an object’s ability to magically execute correct method behavior at appropriate ...

Many object-oriented analysis (OOA) methods are now available for analyzing and modeling a system with objects. My colleagues and I have used some of them in case studies 1, 2 and also analyzed a ...

A Comparison of Object-Oriented and Structured Systems Development Methods, MIS Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Dec., 2001), pp. 457-471 Free online reading for over 10 million articles Save and organize ...