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.

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

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 ...