This chapter discusses the object-oriented capabilities of DB2 and how you use them. Topics discussed include:
One of the most important recent developments in modern programming language technology is object-orientation. Object orientation is the notion that entities in the application domain can be modeled as independent objects that are related to one another by means of classification. Object-orientation lets you capture the similarities and differences among objects in your application domain and group those objects together into related types. Objects of the same type behave in the same way because they share the same set of type-specific functions, reflecting the behavior of your objects in the application domain.