Much of the power of Visual J++ 6 derives from its underlying Windows Foundation Classes (WFC), which Microsoft has designated as the eventual successor to the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). This is a worthy reference to the dozens of classes in WFC. The first volume in this set looks at application classes, core classes, and built-in classes for ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) database programming. This volume also details the Dynamic HTML classes and input/output (I/O) classes. The second volume covers the extensive user-interface classes for the WFC classes that encapsulate Windows controls, plus several utility classes. Successful development in Visual J++ depends on learning the WFC classes. This guide puts all this information at your fingertips in a convenient format. --Richard Dragan
