Concept of abstraction

[bharti_rajpal]

Hi,

I am IT student, I have lots of confusion regarding "Abstraction".As Inheritance is useful for the re-usability of the the program code, What is the use of "Abstraction"?.
I don't have idea regarding "Abstraction". What is "Abstraction" and it's use?. If you aware about the "Abstraction" concept the please explain it with example , so that it will be more useful for me.

[Katty]

The method of showing only required data as well as hide data which is unnecessary is called as "Abstraction".

e.g: The java methods are the best example of the abstraction. The users of the program are unaware about where these methods are stored in the memory, But they can see the declaration of the methods and their use in the class

In short Abstraction is used to display only data which is necessary for users.

[kelfro]

Using abstraction we can inherit the multiple inheritance in JAVA. By using this we can include only prototypes of method. Refer the below example of the abstraction:

Abstract class demo
{
Abstract function([set of arguments]);
..................
.....................
}

Here we are able to define another one class to implement abstract methods. as below:

public class A1 implements demo
{
//Method definition
}

[Zecho]

Hi friend,

The task of removing and granting features from something for limiting it to only required features is referred as "Abstraction" . The main purpose of the abstraction is to hide very important data or data details. You can use abstract method to implement the abstraction. When you run the program you are not able to see what happening in the memory while runnimg program. Other that this I don't know more about the abstraction.