8.4. Conclusion
As we've seen, the allocation of responsibilities to our classes is an important step in designing our applications. The messages sent between the objects help flesh out the structure that exists between our classes. Attempting to determine system structure without first understanding how objects interact is extremely difficult and error prone. It's unfortunate that the behavioral aspect of most systems is so often taken for granted. While behavior allocation is important, it's one of the most difficult design challenges we're faced with. The sheer number of decisions that must be made, in conjunction with the ramifications that each decision has on many other areas of the system, makes behavioral modeling difficult.
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