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This discussion concerns the merits of the ideas and guidelines presented in the article, Composition Versus Inheritance.

Bill Venners

• session bean and entity bean - Pavitra Kalra January 30, 2002 at 9:19 AM (0)
• dynamic binding - Katrin September 19, 2001 at 12:41 AM (1)
  • dynamic binding - Jigesh Mody January 21, 2002 at 5:29 AM (0)
• aggregation/ composition/association - florian troesch August 24, 2001 at 11:47 AM (0)
• Contains-A vs. Has-A as it relates to Aggregation/Composition - Scott Stanlick May 25, 2001 at 11:17 AM (0)
• Relationship - Kelly Kow March 03, 2001 at 10:20 PM (0)
• Relationship - Kelly Kow March 03, 2001 at 10:17 PM (0)
• EJB - Mandar March 01, 2001 at 4:36 AM (20)
  • ejb tutorials - chandramohan May 07, 2001 at 4:10 AM (19)
    • running entity bean - manoj k.a January 24, 2002 at 6:41 AM (0)
    • load balancing - Prashanth December 27, 2001 at 4:54 AM (2)
      • gsf - i hope you are prashnat bhat from sun February 14, 2002 at 12:25 AM (0)
      • gsf - i hope you are prashnat bhat from sun February 14, 2002 at 12:24 AM (0)
    • sessionbean - g.ramesh reddy August 11, 2001 at 5:56 AM (2)
      • when to use session bean when to use entity bean - swapnareddy January 31, 2002 at 1:43 AM (0)
      • try this - Lalit G October 29, 2001 at 6:29 AM (0)
    • Stateless Session Beans - Narendra Mahulkar August 05, 2001 at 7:41 AM (0)
    • ejb doubts - jaya prakash July 12, 2001 at 7:00 AM (2)
      • Using servlet as an EJB client - Pankaj September 22, 2001 at 9:57 PM (0)
      • Stateless Session Beans - Narendra Mahulkar August 05, 2001 at 7:43 AM (0)
    • session beans - prashant kashikar July 06, 2001 at 9:13 AM (5)
      • answer - Tushar Parate July 20, 2001 at 2:13 PM (4)
        • statless stateful and entity bean - tarun srivastava August 02, 2001 at 4:28 AM (1)
          • re: - dhiraj December 24, 2001 at 10:28 AM (0)
        • Session and Entity Beans - Dac Cu July 29, 2001 at 3:03 AM (1)
          • anand - anand October 30, 2001 at 8:35 AM (0)
    • hi - anu June 26, 2001 at 4:03 AM (1)
      • session entity bean - ajay jindal October 17, 2001 at 4:49 PM (0)
• Inheritance - delegation - sandip February 08, 2001 at 9:17 PM (0)
• Frequently occuring error in inheritance - vanaja November 20, 2000 at 3:48 AM (0)
• OOP & inheritance & clauses - Amethyst August 11, 2000 at 5:00 AM (38)
  • advantages and disadvantages in encapsulation - suriani June 19, 2001 at 8:23 AM (36)
    • Encapsulation - Haseeb January 23, 2002 at 12:02 PM (1)
      • abstraction data types in java - joanna marie magalong February 05, 2002 at 9:54 PM (0)
    • information about advantages & disadvantages oop and traditional opproach - Nafiez November 13, 2001 at 1:17 PM (1)
      • help - wonglinhoo February 20, 2002 at 1:28 AM (0)
    • For Encapsulation - thura October 21, 2001 at 10:32 PM (1)
      • OOD - roy yu December 20, 2001 at 5:44 AM (0)
    • Do your own homework - Someone October 20, 2001 at 10:36 AM (0)
    • advantages and weakness of polymorphism, encapsulation,inheritance, and a has a relationship + examples - gunaratnam prasath October 04, 2001 at 11:01 PM (10)
      • i wanna information about polymorphism, encapsulation,inheritance - haroon rasheed February 11, 2002 at 11:34 AM (0)
      • encapsulation - faiza January 14, 2002 at 10:18 PM (0)
      • want to know about encapsulation - ashok January 08, 2002 at 4:20 AM (1)
        • encapsulation - faiza January 14, 2002 at 10:16 PM (0)
      • send to me - Nafiez November 13, 2001 at 1:43 PM (0)
      • OOP C++ - Beng November 05, 2001 at 12:10 AM (0)
      • Disadvantages of OOP - Ayesha October 23, 2001 at 3:06 PM (3)
        • disadvantages of oop - sanket January 10, 2002 at 5:45 AM (0)
        • letter - ramamohan rao December 11, 2001 at 9:12 PM (0)
        • send me this topic - Nafiez November 13, 2001 at 1:42 PM (0)
    • advantages and weakness of polymorphism, encapsulation,inheritance, and a has a relationship + examples - gunaratnam prasath October 04, 2001 at 11:00 PM (11)
      • reply me - samuel January 07, 2002 at 2:45 AM (0)
      • reply soon - zia December 13, 2001 at 4:07 PM (0)
      • help me - Pramod November 23, 2001 at 9:42 PM (0)
    • object oriented programming - gunaratnam prasath October 04, 2001 at 10:41 PM (0)
    • Disadvantages & advantages of inheritance - Ky Ly October 04, 2001 at 3:24 PM (4)
      • IT student(3rd year) - carlene antoine November 27, 2001 at 9:52 PM (0)
      • need help - sam November 01, 2001 at 2:33 AM (0)
      • Disadvantages of OOP - Ayesha October 23, 2001 at 3:07 PM (1)
        • plz help me asap - Deepali Chawla November 30, 2001 at 12:40 AM (0)
  • require information - poonam March 10, 2001 at 9:14 PM (0)
• Java I/O articles - Vivek May 08, 2000 at 8:38 PM (3)
  • SUN JAVA - NONTSIKELELO NDABA November 23, 2001 at 5:37 AM (0)
  • all topics - sameer panhale September 22, 2000 at 12:09 AM (0)
  • all topics - sameer panhale September 22, 2000 at 12:08 AM (0)
• java program output - R. S. Sharma April 14, 2000 at 4:57 AM (1)
  • Initializers are Run When Objects are Created - Bill Venners April 21, 2000 at 2:41 PM (0)
• Request For Java Advancement - S.Karthikeyan April 05, 2000 at 11:01 PM (0)
• request - omprakash September 23, 1999 at 10:44 PM (0)
• OO Survey - Robert Pasenko July 29, 1999 at 1:03 PM (0)
• Composition advantage - Alex Pushkin 23 Nov 1998, 3:41 AM (0)
• UML? - J. Garet 10 Nov 1998, 9:09 PM (5)
  • A good UML reference - Ronald 11 Nov 1998, 9:30 AM (2)
    • I want some information about UML - kayvan yousefi mojir February 27, 2001 at 4:56 AM (1)
      • emir - emir November 15, 2001 at 1:14 PM (0)
  • Some UML Resources - Bill Venners 10 Nov 1998, 11:35 PM (1)
    • UML and Java Patterns - Igor 18 Nov 1998, 10:34 AM (0)
• What is aggregation? - Gene 06 Nov 1998, 4:02 AM (3)
  • doubt between aggregation ,composition and association - sobhan samantaray February 17, 2001 at 11:00 AM (2)
    • understand details - ashok kumar behera November 06, 2001 at 6:32 AM (0)
    • help - sueda October 23, 2001 at 6:37 AM (0)
• Person-employee : Out of context - Herman Jansen 03 Nov 1998, 3:23 AM (1)
  • Tune in next month - Bill Venners 05 Nov 1998, 4:24 PM (0)
• Composition and return values - Alex Pushkin 03 Nov 1998, 2:35 AM (0)
• Employee is-a person - Dave Andrews 29 Oct 1998, 7:40 AM (0)
• Design vs Implementation - Terry Braun 29 Oct 1998, 6:41 AM (1)
  • Design vs. Implementation - Dave Andrews 02 Nov 1998, 11:43 AM (0)
• What about aggregation ? - Krishna Sankar 26 Oct 1998, 6:09 AM (4)
  • What it aggregation - Gene Smith 05 Nov 1998, 1:21 PM (1)
    • What is Aggregation - Noman Kabir May 06, 2001 at 5:44 PM (0)
  • Aggregation vs. Composition - Bill Venners 04 Nov 1998, 10:47 PM (0)
  • Good remark - Herman Jansen 03 Nov 1998, 3:31 AM (0)
• Thanks - Bill Venners 25 Oct 1998, 6:27 PM (0)
• Classification issues - Alex Bunardzic 22 Oct 1998, 10:19 AM (0)
• Inheritance by delegation.. - Natraj Gujran 21 Oct 1998, 7:36 PM (4)
  • Very well said - Bill Venners 25 Oct 1998, 7:24 PM (2)
    • Could not locate your URL - Nagendra November 28, 1999 at 2:04 PM (1)
      • sorry for the typo - Nagendra November 28, 1999 at 2:06 PM (0)
  • Hierarchy Vs. Heterarchy - Alex Bunardzic 22 Oct 1998, 10:36 AM (0)
• Inheritance by delegation.. - Natraj Gujran 21 Oct 1998, 7:34 PM (1)
  • Inheritance - Ben August 05, 2001 at 5:33 AM (0)
• One-sided comparison - Doug Bell 21 Oct 1998, 3:27 PM (8)
  • Re: One sided comparison - Mike Mannion 09 Nov 1998, 1:38 AM (4)
    • Java As It Is - Bill Venners 10 Nov 1998, 10:36 AM (3)
      • Copout... - Mike Mannion 11 Nov 1998, 5:41 AM (1)
        • The copout and the java API - Chris Morris December 01, 2000 at 7:50 AM (0)
      • Er, that would be Bertrand Meyer - Bill Venners 10 Nov 1998, 10:42 AM (0)
  • Inheritance and IS-A - Bill Venners 25 Oct 1998, 6:48 PM (1)
    • Is-A Vs. Is-Like - Alex Bunardzic 28 Oct 1998, 10:11 AM (0)
  • Re: One sided comparison - Terry Braun 22 Oct 1998, 6:30 AM (0)
• An extremist position on inheritance - Terry Braun 21 Oct 1998, 2:10 PM (1)
  • Inheriting the tent. - Frank Hankey January 17, 2002 at 12:50 AM (0)
• Employee is-a Person - Helge Bredow 21 Oct 1998, 1:52 AM (3)
  • Employee is-a Person - Dave Andrews 28 Oct 1998, 1:57 PM (0)
  • On Long Term is-a Relationships - Bill Venners 25 Oct 1998, 7:01 PM (1)
    • Is the model right or wrong? - Mike Mannion 10 Nov 1998, 7:56 AM (0)
• Composition Versus Inheritance - Bruce Blackshaw 18 Oct 1998, 10:46 AM (0)
• Testing this Topic - Bill Venners 12 Oct 1998, 6:10 PM (2)
  • Testing Again - Bill Venners March 10, 2000 at 9:48 PM (1)
    • Testing Again - Bill Venners March 10, 2000 at 9:51 PM (0)