oo cobol 1

[jimlee]

can anyone shed some light on the relationship between classes and objects and how you 'create' an object by invoking it (isn't it already there?)]
as you can see,this is my first venture from procedural to oo cobol so any links to any useful sites or good text books would be much appreciated, ta.

 

[RonaldB]

Jimlee,

I haven't looked into OO-COBOL yet, but your question relates to general OO principles.
A class is generic definition; it describes a family of objects with the same characteristics. An object is an instance of a class, which means that an object is an individual item which has the characteristics defined by that class.

Example: if "sportscars" is a class, the object "silver grey Porsche 911" might be an instance of that class.

I can't readily give you any sources of information, but try searching on "object orientation", or something like that. It's still a hot item, so something useful must be there.

Good luck !