A New Approach for N-ary Relationships in Object Databases

Properties of Relationships Among Objects in Object-Oriented Software Design

“…Relationships capture the interdependencies between objects and provide the means by which objects know about each other. In object orientation, every service request (function call) must be sent to a specific object while in the procedural languages a function can be called directly.For example, in order for object A to send a message to object B, object A must have a handle to object B (in C++, a reference or pointer).Accessing another object's services can be performed in the following ways(See [7], [9], [10], [11], [14] and [29]):…”