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Product configuration management is presented as a practical application for a prototype-based object model. Data model requirements for a configuration system are first introduced using a realistic example from industry. Problems with the traditional type-instance model in this application domain are then identified and given as motivation for the prototype approach. A prototype-based object model with inheritance tree transformations, constraints and component relationships is presented as a tool for expressing dynamic configuration data. Finally, a sample configuration process is described using the prototype object model.
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Peltonen, H., MÄnnistö, T., Alho, K., Sulonen, R. (1994). Product configurations — An application for prototype object approach. In: Tokoro, M., Pareschi, R. (eds) Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0052199
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