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IFC Last modified: Monday, July 21, 1997
Short for Internet Foundation Classes, a set of Java classes developed by Netscape that enables programmers to easily add GUI elements, such as windows, menus and buttons. Netscape and Sun Microsystems have announced that the next version of the Java Development Kit (JDK) will combine the Abstract window Toolkit (AWT) with the IFC. This combination of classes will be called the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). The IFC is similar to Microsoft's Application Foundation Classes (AFC).
	Related Categories Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) Object-Oriented Programming Related Terms AFC class J2EE Java JDK