Programming GPS and OpenStreetMap Applications with Java

Chapter 2

The Vision of a

Real-World Simulator

2.1 Introduction

Chapter 1 compared the functionality of objects to devices, machines, and

other physical entities. With the separation of application and object

development, we derive a vision in this chapter to develop real-world objects

and to place them in (various) real-world applications in order to improve

their flexibility and robustness.

The vision will provide a guideline for the remainder of the book and

beyond. The goal is to reverse the analogy of software objects and phys-

ical objects by implementing real-world objects as independent “things”

and to optimize them for different environments. In ...