Internet Foundation Classes#Hello World

On April 2, 1997, Sun Microsystems and Netscape announced their intention to combine IFC with other technologies to form the Java Foundation Classes.{{cite web

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Ultimately, Sun merged the IFC with other technologies under the name "Swing", adding the capability for a pluggable look and feel of the widgets.

Because its technology has been merged to constitute Swing and Java 2D, IFC is now no longer maintained.

Swing drew a lot of features from IFC:

• contrary to AWT, IFC were written in pure Java, thus being (at the time) browser-independent.
• IFC already provided two Layout managers, that would be later included in the standard JDK
• some IFC components were able to read HTML content from URLs, but the implementation was still far from reliable.

However, Swing also improved IFC in a lot of ways:

• IFC did not have a Model-View architecture
• contrary to Swing, the Look and feel of IFC components was written in the components themselves, making it impossible to change it easily.
• IFC components were not JavaBeans. IFC had a specific persistence mechanism,{{cite web

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• event mechanism was still raw,{{cite web

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This is the classic Hello world program in IFC:

import netscape.application.*;

import netscape.util.*;

public class HelloWorld extends Application {

public void init() {

super.init();

// Create a text field

TextField textField = new TextField(100, 24, 128, 24);

// Set the string to be displayed in the text field.

textField.setStringValue("Hello World");

// Add the text field to the view hierarchy.

mainRootView().addSubview(textField);

}

// This method allows HelloWorld to run as a stand alone application.

public static void main(String args[]) {

HelloWorld app = new HelloWorld ();

ExternalWindow mainWindow = new ExternalWindow();

app.setMainRootView(mainWindow.rootView());

Size size = mainWindow.windowSizeForContentSize(320, 200);

mainWindow.sizeTo(size.width, size.height);

mainWindow.show();

app.run();

}

}

To be compared with the equivalent Java Swing code:

import javax.swing.*;

public class HelloWorld extends JFrame {

public HelloWorld() {

setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);

add(new JLabel("Hello, World!"));

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

HelloWorld app = new HelloWorld();

app.pack();

app.setVisible(true);

}

}

{{reflist|2}}

• [http://www.phdcc.com/javaart2.html IFC presentation]
• [http://wp.netscape.com/eng/ifc/download.html IFC runtime download] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519194800/http://wp.netscape.com/eng/ifc/download.html |date=2006-05-19 }}
• [http://infodoc.unicaen.fr/docs/Java/guide.IFC1.1/ IFC programming guide] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061125115942/http://infodoc.unicaen.fr/docs/Java/guide.IFC1.1/ |date=2006-11-25 }}
• [http://infodoc.unicaen.fr/docs/Java/Reference.IFC1.1/tree.html IFC class hierarchy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061125150802/http://infodoc.unicaen.fr/docs/Java/Reference.IFC1.1/tree.html |date=2006-11-25 }}
• [http://infodoc.unicaen.fr/docs/Java/cookbook/ IFC tutorial] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061125134457/http://infodoc.unicaen.fr/docs/Java/cookbook/ |date=2006-11-25 }}

The last places, where to download the IFC:

• [ftp://ftp.uni-potsdam.de/pub/WWW/Netscape/navigator/plugins/ifc/1.0/ ftp-Server 1 Uni-Potsdam]{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• [ftp://ftp.uni-potsdam.de/pub/WWW/clients/netscape/plugins/ifc/1.0/ ftp-Server 2 Uni-Potsdam]{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• [ftp://ftp.uni-potsdam.de/pub/WWW/netscape/navigator/plugins/ifc/1.0/ ftp-Server 3 Uni-Potsdam]{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• [ftp://ftp.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/.subdisc1/local/jk.collection/ ftp-Server Uni-Bochum]{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• [ftp://ftp.anu.edu.au/sunsite/mnt/disk3/WWW/netscape/navigator/plugins/ifc/1.0/ ftp-Server SunSite]{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

All find from

• [https://archive.today/20121209025852/http://www.filesearching.com/cgi-bin/s?q=nsifc10 FileSearching.com]

The web-archive where is the last place to find really all files:

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20001021124345/http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/ifc/downloads/downloads.html WebArchive of the IFC-side]

Additional you can still find IFC here:

• [http://web.mit.edu/javadev/packages/ifc/ Server of the MIT - Nathans account]
• [http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/java/packages/ifc/ Server of the MIT - stuff side]

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