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Your Trail database > object-oriented programming > encapsulation Copyright Information This article is licensed under GNU Public License. Contact webmasters for more information on copyright issues. 1 Object-Oriented Programming Introduction In traditional procedural programming, a program is composed of data and a bunch of procedures, each of which carries out a subtask for data-processing. Object-oriented programming or OOP, however, breaks down this architecture and intertwined relatively-independent pieces of data and the methods manipulating them together. The new construct is called an object. As shown in the figure above, an object is composed of data (varibles) and code manipulating these data (methods). OOP Features OOP has three important features: inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism. Inheritance means that an object can inherit from another object, thereby owning all the public data and methods from the parent object. Encapsulation means an obje...[more] Comments Webster Unabridged En*cap`su*la"tion (?), n. (Physiol.) The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule. (search time: -710.59 msec) English-Chinese encapsulation [ink9pju'lei62n] ·â×° ; (Ö¸½«Ò»Ð©±ØÒªÐÅÏ¢¼ÓÔÚ²»Í¬²ã´ÎЭÒéÊý¾Ýµ¥ÔªÖ®Ç°,InternetÖеÄÿһÊý¾Ý°üµÄ¿ªÊ¼ÐÅÏ¢,½«·Ö±ðÊÇʵÌå²ã,IP²ã,TCP²ã,ÔÙÖÁÓ¦Óòã) (search time: 51.65 msec)