nk4um Administrator
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2019-01-29T18:45:53.703ZJanuary 29, 2019 18:45
I agree with the first part of the analogy. A resource is an instance of something
like an object is.
However I don't see a resource set as a class in that analogy. I don't often use the
term resource set but when I do it refers to a collection of resources. A set mathematically
is an unordered collection of members of the set. A resource set could the something
like "the set of all resources representing ever employee of a company" and in that
case you could see the set as, not the prototype or class of an employee but certainly
tied to that concept. However often with might have a set of all resources that an
endpoint could embody - in that case those resources might be of many forms with the
endpoint acting as the container.
Hope that helps.
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nk4um User
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Hi,
In order to deepen my understanding of resources, I will draw an analogy with the
OOP concepts of class and object. I'm defining the concepts with my own words, not
looking here for perfection just to sort things out.
A class is the set of all specific "things" which satisfy their class characteristics.
An object is any of the specific things described above.
In other words, a class is like a cookie cutter, for instance a circle shaped one,
while an object is a particular cookie cut using that cookie cutter.
In the ROC world, we are talking about resources and resource sets.
Colloquially, when easily infer-able from context, it seems we could also refer to
a resource set using just the resource word.
Question: Could we safely say that a resource is the object correspondent while 'resource set'
is the class correspondent?
P.S. I understand that a resource is an abstract information set identified by a logical
identifier while an object is a physical block of computer memory identified by a
physical memory address. In other words, a resource lives on the logical level while
an object consumes its life in the physical world/ level. I also understand that ROC
and OOP are complementary technologies.
Having said all the above, are the correspondences resource->object and 'resource
set'->class conceptually valid?
Thanks,
mircea
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