Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

Object-Oriented (OO) is definitely having an impact upon systems analysis, systems design, programming (chapter 8), and most recently database systems (chapter 10). The main aim of this chapter is to portray how conceptual modelling as applied to database systems can move relatively painlessly into the domain of OO (Beynon-Davies, 1992). We will discuss how OO analysis, an approach primarily directed at the building of applications in procedural or object-oriented languages, is equally relevant to the development of database systems.