Eugene Hutorny

Introduction

ObjectTeams/Java (OT/J) is an extension to Java programming language that facilitates roles and collaborations as the first class language constructs. This article is an exercise on using (OT/J) for implementing collaborations.

Subject area

This exercise considers two bank operations – money transfer and fund cashing. The course of events for these two operations is very similar in basic and differs in details. Considering this, it is implemented as an abstract withdraw routine leaving detail differences to concrete implementations.
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Graphs, networks and trees are commonly used to model application domains. In some cases these structures are highly dynamic and can not be defined at design time. Yet there are also cases when they are rather static and do not change during the application life cycle. An example of such static structure is a finite state automaton – defined as a part of design, it remains unchanged at the run-time.
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