Object Technology Technical Overvierw

This technical overview provides an introduction to the concepts and benefits of object-oriented techniques. The overview describes the concepts of encapsulation, abstract data types, message passing, inheritance and polymorphism. The differences between object-oriented design and traditional methods are discussed and the important organizational implications of adopting an object-oriented approach are considered.

An understanding of business applications and familiarity with the process of analysis and design for a typical software development project are helpful.

After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Explain the driving forces for object technology and describe the history of its development
• Define terms related to object technology and explain fundamental object-oriented concepts
• Define object-oriented analysis and design
• List and describe leading analysis and design methodologies
• Explain object-oriented analysis techniques and the process of object-oriented design
• List and describe tools and languages used for object-oriented development
• Define and describe components and component frameworks
• Describe the roles and skills needed for object-oriented development

This course may prove useful to people such as IT (information technology) managers and staff who are transitioning to an object-oriented software development approach.

Those wishing to pursue the topic further could consider one of the following:

• Object Oriented Analysis and Design
• UML Object Oriented Analysis and Design

1 day

Instructor-led seminar.

Introduction to Object Technology

• Why object technology?
  • Driving forces for object technology
  • Computing context
• Object-oriented concepts
  • Objects everywhere
  • Object concepts and characteristics
  • Classes and their characteristics

Object-Oriented Analysis

• Analysis methods and notations
  • Object-oriented development life cycle
  • Incremental model
  • Analysis and design methods
• Performing object-oriented analysis
  • Review of analysis techniques
  • Review of analysis notation
• Perform analysis

OO Design and Development

• Object-oriented design
  • GUI design considerations
  • Perform design
• Object-oriented tools
  • Languages
  • Class libraries
  • Graphical user interface tools
  • Object-oriented databases
  • Development considerations

Implementing Object Technology

• Distributed component frameworks
  • Distributed objects
  • Object management architecture and the common object
  • Compound document framework
  • COM/DCOM and OLE
• Building a career in object technology
  • Changing skill requirements in the development life cycle
  • The project team’s roles and responsibilities
  • Skills and training

Appendix: Object Technology Definitions

Overhead projector, flipcharts. No computers are required.