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To: Brooks Jackson who wrote (1814)	2/20/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: Charlie Smith	Respond to of 8545

Brooks: "OO" = Object Oriented

To: Brooks Jackson who wrote (1814)	2/22/1998 1:21:00 PM
From: King David	Respond to of 8545

Brooks, To others, sorry, slightly off topic ... 'OO' stands for 'object-oriented'. Object-oriented technology is not a new concept in computing, around since maybe the late sixties, maybe earlier (I don't know, I wasn't around to see it). The basic premise is that, contrary to standard computing methods, object orientation 'encapsulates' (intimatey links) small bits of data and program logic together. This separation happens at a conceptual level regardless of physical implementation. Each bit of programming logic exists once and only once in the object definitions and each bit of data exists once and only once in the object definitions. Object definitions are hierarchical. (I'll stop me technological description of OO here, but an excellent introduction to OO is 'Object Technology: A Manager's Guide' by David A. Taylor. But don't hesitate to post more questions as well.) Because of this encapsulation (ie samll bits of program logic), there is a lot messaging required to go through the object hierarchies to find the data / logic that is required to process a given request. In a transaction intensive environment, this can be very costly in terms of processing speed, especially when we're talking about the volumes that CKFR projects. Does all that make sense? I hope so, if not lemme know. KD