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.

Java Foundation Classes (JFC) offer a rich selection of components for building smart and interactive graphical user interfaces (GUIs). You can display tabular data using the javax.swing.JTable class.

The heavyweight troika is to produce a JavaBeans component toolkit - called Java Foundation Classes (JFC) - to aid developers build a UI that will remain the same whatever the platform.

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