Extending the Object-Oriented Paradigm for Supporting Complex Objects

In this paper a generalized object-oriented approach for complex object modeling is proposed,which is characterized by adding the concept of Meta-Class into the object-oriented paradigm for unifying the handling of object types and primary data models,and also characterized by integrating the modeling of object type hierarchy and object configuration hierarchy.Concepts such as Compositional Relationship Object,Face,Object Configuration Schema Expression,Object Skeleton are introduced to specify object struc…