applications of OOP:

OOP is one of the programming buzzwords today. Applications of OOP are beginning to gain importance in many areas. The most popular application of object-oriented programming, up to now, has been in the area of user interface design such as windows. There are hundreds of window-based systems developed using OOP techniques.

Real-business systems are often much more complex and contain many more objects with complicated attributes and methods. OOP is useful in this type of applications because it can simplify a complex problem. The different areas for application of OOP include:

· Real-time systems

· Simulation and modeling

· Object-oriented databases

· Hypertext, hypermedia

· AI and Expert systems

· Neural networks and parallel programming

· Decision support and office automation systems

· CIM/CAD/CAM systems