Java and Database Connectivity

A bit about Object Orientation (ii): languages

• Object Oriented languages represent taxonomies
• Classes describe groups of things
  • which share the same properties and the same behaviour
• An Object has all the behaviours described by its class
  • And by its class's 'superclass'
    • And by the superclass's superclass
• We describe behaviours by adding methods
• We specialise behaviours by specialising methods

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