Sometimes situations arise where you must replace or patch an application class. In this article, an excerpt from Covert Java, Alex Kalinovsky explains what circumstances warrant such an approach ...

JFC: Java Foundation Classes, a class library from Sun that expands the AWT. It’s built on Netscape’s since-discontinued foundation classes (IFC).

Foundation classes are just what the name says, the very foundation on which information technology (IT) professionals are creating their next generation of enterprises to run business systems. ...

The .NET base class library packages classes and types that are helpful in performing everyday tasks like dealing with strings and primitives, creating database connections, performing I/O ...