In OOP modeling, is there any distinction between a “has-a” relationship and a “composed-of” relationship?
In OOP modeling, is there any distinction between a has-a relationship and a composed-of
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In OOP modeling, is there any distinction between a “has-a” relationship and a “composed-of” relationship?
Both statements usually mean composition.
But it seems to me that composed-of always means composition while has-a sometimes can mean aggregation (but not in the picture below). In UML it looks like:
(source: atomicobject.com)