Reading an article appeared the following term runtime object or "runtime object". What would that object be? Would it be an instance of a class? Can anyone pass some example?
Part of the article:
The OO design process centers on use cases: a user performs standalone tasks that have some useful outcome. (Logging on is not a use case because it lacks a useful outcome in the problem domain. Drawing a paycheck is a use case.) An OO system, then, implements the activities needed to play out the various scenarios that comprise a use case. The runtime objects that play out the use case to one another. Not all messages are equal, however. You have not accomplished much if you've just built a procedural program that uses objects and classes.
But what I really wanted to know is what could be a run-time object.