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The document discusses aggregation in Java. Aggregation represents a HAS-A relationship between objects, where one object contains a reference to another. For example, an Employee object may contain an Address object. Aggregation is used for code reusability, where one class can delegate method calls to another class.

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Aggregation in Java - Javatpoint

The document discusses aggregation in Java. Aggregation represents a HAS-A relationship between objects, where one object contains a reference to another. For example, an Employee object may contain an Address object. Aggregation is used for code reusability, where one class can delegate method calls to another class.

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Aggregation in Java

If a class have an entity reference, it is known as Aggregation. Aggregation represents HAS-A


relationship.

Consider a situation, Employee object contains many informations such as id, name, emailId
etc. It contains one more object named address, which contains its own informations such as
city, state, country, zipcode etc. as given below.

class Employee{
int id;
String name;
Address address;//Address is a class
...
}

In such case, Employee has an entity reference address, so relationship is Employee HAS-A
address.

Why use Aggregation?

For Code Reusability.

Simple Example of Aggregation

In this example, we have created the reference of Operation class in the Circle class.

class Operation{
int square(int n){
return n*n;
}
}

class Circle{
Operation op;//aggregation
double pi=3.14;

double area(int radius){


op=new Operation();
int rsquare=op.square(radius);//code reusability (i.e. delegates the method call).
return pi*rsquare;
}

public static void main(String args[]){


Circle c=new Circle();
double result=c.area(5);
System.out.println(result);
}
}

Test it Now

Output:78.5

When use Aggregation?

Code reuse is also best achieved by aggregation when there is no is-a relationship.
Inheritance should be used only if the relationship is-a is maintained throughout the
lifetime of the objects involved; otherwise, aggregation is the best choice.
Understanding meaningful example of Aggregation

In this example, Employee has an object of Address, address object contains its own
informations such as city, state, country etc. In such case relationship is Employee HAS-A
address.

Address.java

public class Address {


String city,state,country;

public Address(String city, String state, String country) {


this.city = city;
this.state = state;
this.country = country;
}

Emp.java

public class Emp {


int id;
String name;
Address address;

public Emp(int id, String name,Address address) {


this.id = id;
this.name = name;
this.address=address;
}

void display(){
System.out.println(id+" "+name);
System.out.println(address.city+" "+address.state+" "+address.country);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {


Address address1=new Address("gzb","UP","india");
Address address2=new Address("gno","UP","india");

Emp e=new Emp(111,"varun",address1);


Emp e2=new Emp(112,"arun",address2);

e.display();
e2.display();

}
}

Test it Now

Output:111 varun
gzb UP india
112 arun
gno UP india

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