This project has given us some insight to further our research into other essential concepts of object-oriented technology such aggregation, composition and association.

Object-oriented technology is one of the faster growing segments of the computing industry.

The company said it incorporated object-oriented technology in Pelorus because it is more efficient than conventional software-development techniques.

Also, many of the programmers who pioneered business-applications development either have retired or are retraining themselves for a new world of client/server and object-oriented technology.

Object-oriented technology is regarded by many of its advocates as a paradigm shift in software development.

"Pink is the first system software environment built from the bottom up with object-oriented technology," he says; it's an environment that will be "portable, adaptable, scalable and processor independent." NEXT, Cairo, and other would-be object environments really only offer a few top layers of object code and APIs on top of conventional procedural code; Pink was designed from the beginning to embody modern object technologies completely.

The importance of object-oriented technology is not just that it's a key part of the new high-productivity environment, but it serves as a bridge to the new world of technology.

Objects in Action proves that object-oriented technology has several practical applications and advocates the technology for widespread use.

Other themes include information engineering, mobile/wireless computing, modeling with UML, object-oriented technology, reverse engineering, software testing techniques, and web engineering and web-based applications.

Autodesk is trying to plumb a more horizontal, less qualified designer market, by reducing the complexity of developing new products, chiefly through object-oriented technology, and making them easier for users.