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Glossary Object Oriented Analysis and Design / Term

Composition

Whole-part relationship in which the parts cannot be dissociated from the object.


A technique of building more complex entities from less complex ones. In class composition, classes may contain attributes that are themselves classes. In object composition, complex objects can be constructed from more primitive objects.


A form of association where the containing object owns and has exclusive control over the contained (composite) object.

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