STRUCTURAL DESIGN PATTERNS

Structural Design Patterns are one of the original gang of four pattern types. In their words, "Structural patterns are concerned with how classes and objects are composed to form larger structures." Some of the structural patterns are built directly into most modern programming languages. An example of this would be the the hiding of data using private, public, or protected keywords. Another would be the object oriented idea of inheritance itself... This manual covers the database side of the Oahu messaging platform. This code is responsible for managing the messages or posts, the users of the system, and the permissions and security systems that they use to interact. It can be thought of as the Oahu framework or operating system. It is intended to be a foundation for other applications to be built on, not a final product in itself.