A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an object-oriented Database? An object oriented database manages objects ...

Porting procedural code, such as C, to an object-oriented framework can be overwhelming to architects new to object-oriented design. However, once you’ve completed the move, you can take advantage of ...

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design is a course that presents an introduction to the design and construction of software systems using techniques that view a system as a set of objects that work ...

A database that is managed by an object-oriented database management system (ODBMS). Object databases are closely aligned with a particular object-oriented programming language and enable the data in ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

In computer science, object-oriented programming, OOP for short, is a computer programming paradigm. The idea behind object-oriented programming is that a computer program may be seen as composed of a ...

Martin Buchwitz is editor of SPS Magazin in Germany. SPS Magazin has concentrated on the topic of engineering of control systems for a few months now, especially on programming. The reason for us ...