iAnywhere Water System User Manual

Chapter 2 Building an Object-Oriented Model

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3 Modify any of the properties of the class directly in the list.

4 Click OK.

Adding objects to a class

You can add an object to a class, that already exists in the model, but which

belongs to another class.

You can add the following objects to an object:

Object Description

Attribute Named property of a class that defines the characteristics of a

class

Operation Implementation of a service that can be requested from any

object of the class in order to affect behavior

Business rule Written statement specifying what the information system must

do or how it must be structured to support business needs

You add an object to a class from the list in the page corresponding to the

object, in the class property sheet.

When you add an object to a class in this way, you in fact create a copy of the

object. The new object exists as a unique object, and you can then make

changes to it as you would to any object in the model.