August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
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Composition
Composition is a relationship in which an object cannot exist independently of another object. It is graphically represented by a filled diamond shape. For example, in a domain with a Room object, we might say that a Room object cannot exist without a Building object: