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What is Aggregation

Posted by Noman Kabir on May 06, 2001 at 5:44 PM

>
> I'm still not sure I understand aggregation. If I instantiate
> an object and hand out references to it then it's aggregation
> as opposed to composition, right? If so, what happens to the
> references/pointers if the instantiating class goes away in
> C++ and Java?

> Gene