Object Technology: An Executive Overview

The topics include: •= Software engineering concerns underlying object technology. •= Key concepts: data abstraction, information hiding, classes, inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic binding. •= Object-oriented languages and environments: a review of the principal offerings. •= Object-oriented analysis and design; UML. •= Object persistence and object-oriented databases. •= Object request brokers; CORBA, COM, Enterprise Java Beans. •= The object industry. •= Current developments and future trends in object technology.