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Subject connect have be add to is a kind of is a subtopic of have example describe is an instance of have default name exist if implement using has part implement in has definition represent draw as show

association sufficient names to make the association clear and unambiguous legitimate only if its links will survive beyond the execution of any particular operation a model unless it is relevant to the application - it will be needed to implement some requirement data abstraction 5.3 - Associations and Multiplicity class Person in a business application might have the following relationships supervisor (association to class Manager) and tasksToDo (association to class Task) a relationship that will exist between instances at run time "has" if it has neither an association name nor a role name a class possesses, controls, is connected to, is related to, is a part of, has as parts, is a member of, or has as members, some class in your model instance variables in Java: you divide each two-way association into two one-way associations - so each associated class has an instance variable role name several ways in Java A relationship between two classes that represents the existence of a set of links between objects of the two classes all the links between two classes that may ever exist a line, or set of connected lines, between two classes in a UML class diagram how two classes are related to each other

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link two objects - an instance of each of the two classes involved in the association multiplicity symbols legitimate only if its links will survive beyond the execution of any particular operation a model unless it is relevant to the application - it will be needed to implement some requirement data abstraction 5.3 - Associations and Multiplicity class Person in a business application might have the following relationships supervisor (association to class Manager) and tasksToDo (association to class Task) a relationship that will exist between instances at run time association "has" if it has neither an association name nor a role name a class possesses, controls, is connected to, is related to, is a part of, has as parts, is a member of, or has as members, some class in your model instance variables in Java: you divide each two-way association into two one-way associations - so each associated class has an instance variable role name several ways in Java A reference from one object to another all the links between two classes that may ever exist a line connecting two objects in a UML instance diagram how two classes are related to each other

Subject	connect	have	be	add to	is a kind of	is a subtopic of	have example	describe	is an instance of	have default name	exist if	implement using	has part	implement in	has definition	represent	draw as	show
association		sufficient names to make the association clear and unambiguous	legitimate only if its links will survive beyond the execution of any particular operation	a model unless it is relevant to the application - it will be needed to implement some requirement	data abstraction	5.3 - Associations and Multiplicity	class Person in a business application might have the following relationships supervisor (association to class Manager) and tasksToDo (association to class Task)	a relationship that will exist between instances at run time		"has" if it has neither an association name nor a role name	a class possesses, controls, is connected to, is related to, is a part of, has as parts, is a member of, or has as members, some class in your model	instance variables in Java: you divide each two-way association into two one-way associations - so each associated class has an instance variable	role name	several ways in Java	A relationship between two classes that represents the existence of a set of links between objects of the two classes	all the links between two classes that may ever exist	a line, or set of connected lines, between two classes in a UML class diagram	how two classes are related to each other
data abstraction					abstraction	2.1 - What is Object Orientation?
link	two objects - an instance of each of the two classes involved in the association	multiplicity symbols	legitimate only if its links will survive beyond the execution of any particular operation	a model unless it is relevant to the application - it will be needed to implement some requirement	data abstraction	5.3 - Associations and Multiplicity	class Person in a business application might have the following relationships supervisor (association to class Manager) and tasksToDo (association to class Task)	a relationship that will exist between instances at run time	association	"has" if it has neither an association name nor a role name	a class possesses, controls, is connected to, is related to, is a part of, has as parts, is a member of, or has as members, some class in your model	instance variables in Java: you divide each two-way association into two one-way associations - so each associated class has an instance variable	role name	several ways in Java	A reference from one object to another	all the links between two classes that may ever exist	a line connecting two objects in a UML instance diagram	how two classes are related to each other

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