Chapter 9. Physical Object-Oriented Design
The Role of Logical and Physical Object-Oriented Design
When most people use the term “object-oriented design,” they are typically referring to logical object-oriented design. There are actually two facets to object-oriented design: logical design and physical design. Logical design involves everything discussed thus far, including the discovery of classes, their protocols, their uses relationships, their containment relationships, and their inheritance relationships. In short, anything that relates to the key abstractions and mechanisms of an application can be categorized as logical design. Physical design involves the techniques used to map these abstract constructs onto given software and hardware ...
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