9.2 OO Data Concepts

The Object Management Group (OMG) was founded in 1989 by a group of international computer industry leaders for the purpose of developing enterprise integration technology standards that are portable and interoperable. This nonprofit group has expanded to hundreds of members, including computer vendors, universities, government agencies, and end users. One focus of the group has been on developing standards for the object model, for object services, and for object data modeling.

9.2.1 Objects and Literals

The concept of an object is fundamental in the OO model. An object corresponds to an entity in our previous terminology but has both a state and a behavior. The state includes the internal structure of the object, its ...

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