B.2. Relationship Service Conceptual Design
Section 1 Goal
Enable the explicit representation of entities and relationships.
Section 2 Conceptual Overview
The Relationship Service allows entities and relationships to be explicitly represented. Entities are objects. Roles represent objects in a Relationship.
The Relationship Service contains a list of relationship factory objects, each of which contains relationships of a particular type. Relationships are between object instances and are dynamically created from Roles. Roles are defined as part of the description of a relationship and also contain a reference to an object instance and a name for the role instance within a particular relationship. Relationships are typically the result of dynamic ...
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