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The '''Internet Foundation Classes''' (IFC) is a [[GUI]] [[widget toolkit]] and [[graphics library]] for Java originally developed by [[Netcode Corporation]] and first released by [[Netscape Corporation]] on December 16, 1996.
The '''Internet Foundation Classes''' (IFC) is a [[GUI]] [[widget toolkit]] and [[graphics library]] for Java originally developed by [[Netcode]] Corporation and first released by [[Netscape Corporation]] on December 16, 1996.


The Java IFC was fairly close to the early versions of the [[Objective-C]] [[NeXTStep]] classes for NeXT. A builder tool was also included under the IFC umbrella that was close in spirit (but significantly limited in functionality) to NeXT's [[Interface Builder]]. This ecosystem was attractive to NeXT application developers interested in looking at the Java language.
The Java IFC was fairly close to the early versions of the [[Objective-C]] [[NeXTStep]] classes for NeXT. A builder tool was also included under the IFC umbrella that was close in spirit (but significantly limited in functionality) to NeXT's [[Interface Builder]]. This ecosystem was attractive to NeXT application developers interested in looking at the Java language.