Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)

From: Robert Martin <unclebob_at_objectmentor.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:11:37 -0400
Message-ID: <2006062014113723810-unclebob@objectmentorcom>

On 2006-06-13 13:04:01 -0400, "Marshall" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> said:

> Robert Martin wrote:

>> 
>> Databases are data centric.  While they have behaviors; those behaviors
>> are related to data management.   Applications are behavior centric,
>> while they manipulate data, the things that do to that data are rich
>> with business rules and formatting behaviors.

>
> I'm curious: do you have a definition of "behavior"? I hear this word
> a lot and I'm not sure exactly what is intended. Is a method
> behavior? Is a class behavior? What about a function? Is behavior
> a transformation of data? Wouldn't this make it a synonym for
> calculation?

Not quite. A calculation does not necessarily change the state of the input variables. Behavior is probably best described as a controlled change of state. i.e. a turing machine.
>

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