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Relationships Between Classes

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In the previous chapter we studied classes and objects as the two building blocks of object-oriented systems. The structure of a software system is defined by the way in which these building blocks relate with one another and the behaviour of the system is defined by the manner in which the objects interact with one another.

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    Technically, the system throws an exception, a topic that will be covered in detail in Chap. 4. In this case, an instance of the class ClassCastException is thrown open.

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    Protected access will be explained shortly.

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  1. Department of Information and Computer Science, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN, USA

    Brahma Dathan

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA

    Sarnath Ramnath

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Dathan, B., Ramnath, S. (2015). Relationships Between Classes. In: Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Implementation. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24280-4_3

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