Objects to Relations...

Description

Applying object-orieted technology to systems development is widely recognized as improving productivity and reducing system maintenance and costs. At the same time, relational technology has gained leverage in most businesses. There exist already several proposals to combine object-oriented programming with relational database systems. Yet, existing approaches do not support necessary combinations of object-oriented and relational technology in concert, like re-engineering of existing relational data in an object-oriented way. In this thesis, I present a pattern oriented approach which enables the application designer and programmer to map a given relational schema to an object-oriented schema.