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Frameworks and Reflection

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 Explain Software framework

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 List examples of Frameworks

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 List Advantages and Disadvantages of Framework

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 Explain Reflection
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Basic Structure
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Basic Structure - Base

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 In OOP, a framework is a set of reusable software

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 Creates Windows-based as well as Web-based

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applications

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 The .NET framework

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stack is shown in the

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 The table shows the .NET framework versions and their

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compatible Visual Studio versions.

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1.0 2002 Visual Studio.NET Windows XP Tablet and Media
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1.1 2003 Visual Studio 2003 Windows Server 2003

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2.0 2005 Visual Studio 2005 Windows Server 2003 R2

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3.5 2007 Visual Studio 2008 Windows 7, Windows Server

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4.0 2010 Visual Studio 2010 Windows 7

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4.5 (consumer 2012 Visual Studio ‘11’ Windows 8, Windows Server 8

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 The higher versions of .NET Framework such as 3.0,

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3.5, and 4.0 consist of new libraries such as:

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 Used for creating GUIs for Java programs

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 A component is any object that can be displayed on the

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 A LayoutManager is an interface that designs the

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display area of an application based on the type of

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layout selected by the user.

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 AWT provides another set of interfaces called listeners

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to handle the actions done by users on these

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components.

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 The listener hierarchy is shown in the figure.

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 Mirror image of an object

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person in the mirror.

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Reflection enables the

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other members of the class
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manipulate the internal

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properties of the program.

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 Reflection is the ability of a code to retrieve its own

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metadata for the purpose of finding modules,

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assemblies, and type information at runtime.

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Java provides the ‘java.lang.reflect’ package for
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 A framework is a set of reusable software components

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or classes that form the basis of an application.

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 Foundation methods are one that become a part of a

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child class through inheritance but are not overridden

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 .NET Framework is a software framework that consists

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of a large library of classes and provides language

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supported by the framework.

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 Java provides the class library called Abstract Window

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Toolkit (AWT) which is a collection of a number of

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common graphical components used for designing the

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GUI of a Java application.

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