Introduction

Keywords and phrases

• the OO lifecycle -- modeling
• encapsulation, inheritance, delegation, polymorphism
• specification and implementation inheritance
• design by contract
• interfaces, components and frameworks
• idioms, patterns, software architecture

Characterizations

1. OO = encapsulation + inheritance
2. OO = data abstraction + polymorphism
3. OO = interfaces + components
4. OO = types + implementations
5. OO = CORBA + Application Frameworks
6. OO = Java + nothing else
7. OO = a metaphor + hype
8. OO = everything I can sell ...