How widely used are Oracle objects?

Question

I\'m writing an assignment for a databases class, and we\'re required to migrate our existing relational schema to Oracle objects. This whole debacle has got me wondering, just

Answer 1

I've never seen the benefit to it, mostly because when I last examined it, your object definitions were immutable once they were used by a table.

So if you had an Address object you used in a Customer table definition, you could never ever change the Address object definition without dropping the Customer table, or having to go through a very wonky conversion.

Objects are fine for data instantiation - like what an application does - but for data storage and set-based manipulation, well, I simply don't see the point.