This section details the inheritance of the different application elements.
Inheritance defines the hierarchy of the different classes of application elements. Application elements are related in a subclass/superclass hierarchy. All of the properties defined for a superclass are inherited by its subclasses. For example, an ApplicationServer is a subclass of SoftwareService. An ApplicationServer element would inherit any root-cause problems, symptomatic events, aggregates, and other properties that are defined for a SoftwareService element. Subclasses may also define their own properties or modify the properties that they inherit from their superclass.
Application Connectivity Monitor includes high-level abstract ApplicationService and ApplicationTask classes, and the lower level SoftwareService classes.
