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 Job_ID Salary Hire_Date Commission Credit_Limit Status Shipping_Address Credit_Card_No

Valid Person Types: Employee Customer

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Using Inheritance in the Business Domain Layer

PersonEO

Name Phone MailingAddress PersonType

Discriminator column

EmployeeEO JobId Salary Hire Date Commission raiseSalary()

CustomerEO CreditLimit Status ShippingAddress CreditCardNo 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

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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 PersonID PersonTypeCode PersonAddress PersonName 1 PERS Denver Pam Single VO for the base EO and its subtypes

PersonEO PersonID PersonTypeCode PersonAddress PersonName

EmployeeEO
Salary 2 STAFF Houston Gary 3 STAFF Reno Glenn

CustomerEO
CreditLimit 4 CUST 5 CUST 6 CUST Boise Chicago Paris Kate Jeff 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 Phone MailingAddress PersonType ThePerson EmployeeListVO Name Phone MailingAddress PersonType Salary ThePerson EmployeeEO Multiple VO: One for each base EO and subtype

PersonEO

CustomerListVO Name Phone MailingAddress PersonType CreditLimit ThePerson CustomerEO

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Creating View Objects with Polymorphic View Rows: Defining the VO Hierarchy
First, set up the view object hierarchy:
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Creating View Objects with Polymorphic View Rows: Defining the VO Hierarchy
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Creating View Objects with Polymorphic View Rows: Defining Subtypes in the Data Model
Next, set up the subtypes in the data model:
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At run time, rows show different attributes depending on the discriminator:

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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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