POA , DOA and Object-oriented Approach

Created November 23, 2009
Last updated November 23, 2009

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POA , DOA and Object-oriented Approach

  Do you hear "POA" (Process-Oriented Approach) or "DOA" (Data-Oriented Approach) ? ¹
  I think that there are few books of the Object-oriented Approach (OOA) that explain the POA and DOA.
  But , if you stady the OOA , I think that you should understand the features and weak points of the POA and DOA ² .
  Accordingly, in this page, I will briefly explain the POA and DOA. And I will briefly explain the relation of those and the OOA ³.

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Note.
1:The POA and DOA are a range of the Software Design & Development Engineer Examination (SW) of the Japan Information-Technology Engineers Examination.
( The Object-Oriented Approach too. )
2:The weak points are specially important.
Because , if you don't understand it, the things that you think OOA may not be so.
3:In this page , I will not explain the weak points of OOA.

1. The features and weak points of the POA
2. The features and weak points of the DOA
3. The POA , DOA and OOA

1. The features and weak points of the POA

  The POA (Process-Oriented Approach) is the idea that you pay attention to the process of the business.

  In the POA , the datas are accessory.
  If you need the details of the POA , please search "Process Oriented Approach" by the Google.

  Finally, the week points. In the POA , if you continue to add the program, the datas used the program are not consistency.

2. The features and weak points of the DOA

  The DOA ( Data-Oriented Approach ) is the idea that you pay attention to the datas using the business.
Because the datas are stability and the commoon resources.

  If you need the details of the DOA , please search "Data Oriented Approach" by Google.
The DOA is able to design a more independent program on a specification updating than the POA.

  Finally, the week points of the DOA...
There is not a idea of the inheritance ( but not always ). Therefore, you can't design the data structures that is the relation of the inheritance (for instance , the relation of the car and truck (lorry) ) .
After that, when you update the data , you must check the data . But, if there are 1000 place , how much time does it take to program it? ( If in the OOA , you only have to program one place by using the encapsulation. )

3. The POA , DOA and OOA

  I briefly explained the POA and DOA.

  I explained that the class diagram and the ER diagram look like in the page of "Class diagram , Entity-relationship diagram and Extraction of the class".
  Then, I think that the base of the OOA is the DOA. And , I think that the OOA is developed the DOA to solve the weak points of DOA.
  It is very important.

  When you design the program by the OOA , do you pay attention to the process without paying attention to the datas ?
  It is a mistake.
  Please remember the weak points of POA. Please remember the feature of the DOA.
  I explained that the data structures is more stable than the process.
  Therefore, when you designe by the OOA , you should pay attention to the datas.

  Then, do you use the inheritance to only use the "incremental programming" ?
  This is a idea that as the sub-class is only programed the deference of the super-class, we can decrease the time of programming , and we willingly use it .
  It is denger.
  Because, the datas are more important than the process.

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