AppletTalk.com Java discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  OO programs in Java... or not?          AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java Help View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Kevin Guest Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 5:57 pm    Post subject: OO programs in Java... or not? All, Just out of curiosity, when a programmer is writing a Java program, say, a Customer Maintenance program (reads from customer file, changes data, writes back to customer file, etc) does it have to be written as an Object Oriented program (customer is an object with state and behavior) or can he write is as a procedural program (read records from file, act on records, write them back, etc). I guess I'm wondering if writing all programs in Java require them to be Object based? What's your opinion? Thanks! Kevin -- "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson later." Back to top Chris Mays Guest Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 6:25 pm    Post subject: Re: OO programs in Java... or not? Well, all Java code has to exist within a class, but I don't see why you couldn't structure it just like a structured program. I would think, however, that if that's what you really wanted, you'd be better off choosing another language for the development. Chris Kevin wrote: Quote: All, Just out of curiosity, when a programmer is writing a Java program, say, a Customer Maintenance program (reads from customer file, changes data, writes back to customer file, etc) does it have to be written as an Object Oriented program (customer is an object with state and behavior) or can he write is as a procedural program (read records from file, act on records, write them back, etc). I guess I'm wondering if writing all programs in Java require them to be Object based? What's your opinion? Thanks! Kevin -- "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson later." Back to top Brad BARCLAY Guest Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 7:31 pm    Post subject: Re: OO programs in Java... or not? Kevin wrote: Quote: All, Just out of curiosity, when a programmer is writing a Java program, say, a Customer Maintenance program (reads from customer file, changes data, writes back to customer file, etc) does it have to be written as an Object Oriented program (customer is an object with state and behavior) or can he write is as a procedural program (read records from file, act on records, write them back, etc). I guess I'm wondering if writing all programs in Java require them to be Object based? What's your opinion? You can't write a Java program that isn't comprised of at least one object -- so in essence, you cannot escape object orientation when programming in Java. You could, however, develop your object in a monolithic manner tha minimizes the object-orientation of your code. Why you'd want to do this is beyond me -- the end result is generally messy and really difficult to maintain, and can ofter suffer performence problems. (I was brought into a project once that was written for Java 1.0 (back in the day...) by a pair of C programmers who knew nothing about OOP. I was asked to determine why it suffered such horrendous performance, and fix it if possible. After two days of slogging through code that barely made any sense, I scrapped the entire codebase and had to start recoding the project from scratch -- absolutely nothing was reusuable). Brad BARCLAY -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From the OS/2 WARP v4.5 Desktop of Brad BARCLAY. The jSyncManager Project: http://www.jsyncmanager.org Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java Help All times are GMT Page 1 of 1   Jump to: Select a forum Java Newsgroups----------------Java DiscussionsWeb-based java games comp.lang.java 3D Graphics API's for Java Java: Support and criticism Java System Announcements comp.lang.java.api JavaBeans Java and CORBA Java and Databases comp.lang.java.developer Java GUI Toolkits Java Help comp.lang.java.javascript JVM, native methods and hardware comp.lang.java.misc Java Language Programming Security and Java comp.lang.java.setup Java Software Tools comp.lang.java.tech ibm.software.java.linux  Non-English Java Newsgroups----------------Java Language (German)Language Java (Français)Java (Italian)  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.