Software Engineering-Object Oriented Programming

Although all areas of object technologies have received significant attention within the software community, no subject has produced more books, more discussion, and more debate than object-oriented programming (OOP). Hundreds of books have been written on C++ and Java programming, and hundreds more are dedicated to less widely used OO languages.

The software engineering viewpoint stresses OOA and OOD and considers OOP (coding) an important, but secondary, activity that is an outgrowth of analysis and design. The reason for this is simple. As the complexity of systems increases, the design architecture of the end product has a significantly stronger influence on its success than the programming language that has been used. And yet, “language wars” continue to rage.