Using Inheritance in the Business

Domain Layer

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do the

following:
• Create a Business Component that extends another
component
• Develop an Entity Object (EO) that implements subtypes
• Create polymorphic View Objects (VO)

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 Agenda

• Inheritance and Business Components

• Polymorphic View Objects

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 Using Inheritance in the
Business Domain Layer

Persons
Name
Phone
Mailing_Address
Person_Type_Code Valid Person Types:
Job_ID – Employee
Salary – Customer
Hire_Date
Commission
Credit_Limit
Status
Shipping_Address
Credit_Card_No

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 Using Inheritance in the
Business Domain Layer

PersonEO
Name
Phone
MailingAddress
PersonType Discriminator column

EmployeeEO CustomerEO
JobId CreditLimit
Salary Status
Hire Date ShippingAddress
Commission CreditCardNo
raiseSalary() approveCredit()

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 Creating a Business Component
That Extends Another

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 Inheritance Example

To set up inheritance, you need to determine:

• The discriminator column and values
• The common attributes and methods
• The attributes and methods that are specific to subtypes

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 Creating the Base Entity Object
in an Inheritance Hierarchy
1

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 Creating a Subtype Entity Object

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 Agenda

• Inheritance and Business Components

• Polymorphic View Objects

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 Using Polymorphic View Objects

You can use View Objects with:

• Polymorphic entity usage
• Polymorphic view rows

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 Using View Objects
with Polymorphic Entity Usage

PersonListVO 1 PERS Denver Pam

PersonID
PersonTypeCode PersonEO
Single VO for
PersonAddress PersonID the base EO
PersonName PersonTypeCode and its
PersonAddress subtypes
PersonName

EmployeeEO CustomerEO

Salary CreditLimit

2 STAFF Houston Gary 4 CUST Boise Kate

3 STAFF Reno Glenn 5 CUST Chicago Jeff
6 CUST Paris Patrice

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 Creating a View Object
with Polymorphic Entity Usage

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 Using View Objects with
Polymorphic View Rows
PersonListVO
Name
Multiple VO:
Phone
One for each
MailingAddress
base EO and
PersonType
subtype
PersonEO ThePerson

EmployeeListVO CustomerListVO
Name Name
Phone Phone
MailingAddress MailingAddress
PersonType PersonType
Salary CreditLimit
ThePerson ThePerson

EmployeeEO CustomerEO

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 Creating View Objects with Polymorphic View
Rows: Defining the VO Hierarchy

First, set up the view object hierarchy:

1 2 4

3 Not pictured

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 Creating View Objects with Polymorphic View
Rows: Defining the VO Hierarchy

5 6

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 Creating View Objects with Polymorphic View
Rows: Defining Subtypes in the Data Model

Next, set up the subtypes in At run time, rows show

the data model: different attributes depending
on the discriminator:
1

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to:

• Create a Business Component that extends another
component
• Develop an EO that implements subtypes
• Create polymorphic View Objects

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 Practice 4 Overview:
Using Inheritance
These practices cover the following topics:
• Creating an inheritance hierarchy of entity objects
• Implementing different attributes and behaviors for entity
object subtypes
• Creating a view object that displays all subtypes, with
behavior dependent on the subtype
• Creating view objects that display different attributes
depending on the subtype

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