Association vs Dependency

From: ShriKant Vashishtha (shrikantv_at_delhi.tcs.co.in)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: 30 Dec 2003 16:48:03 -0800

Hi All,

I am slightly confused in finding the difference between association
and dependency.

For me, whenever the variable is intialized at a local scope or passed
as a parameter in a method, its denoted as dependency. However, for
association, I believe, the object needs to be on global scope (as an
instance variable). However, I rarely use any object at a global
scope, unless I know that it is used for maintaining the state of
class or need to be used across different methods. So most of the
time, I end up with dependency .

Am I missing something over here.

Thanks
-ShriKant

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