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Inter-object communication

Communication among the objects in cell models is performed in a dynamic manner, via PropertyInterface of each Entity (figure [*]).

The Entity inherits PropertyInterface class which has a property table. The table associates property names with methods of the object which calculates or simply sets values of the properties. This mechanism is used for dynamically-bound communications between an Entity object and another Entity, a Logger or the frontend.



2003-02-08