Confused in between abstraction and encapsulation

[reetus]

Hi,

I have too confused in between abstraction and encapsulation.
As per my knowledge encapsulation is nothing but the hiding of the data. And abstraction is the "Hiding Implementation".

I am unable to find out the difference in between them.

Please help me to find out the solution over this.

[Praetor]

Hi friend,

1. Basically encapsulation comprises of information hiding as well as abstraction.

2. Data encapsulation : Information hiding avoids clients from accessing inside view, in which the abstraction behavior is implemented

3. Abstraction: Implementation hiding primarirly focuses over the object's outside view.

[Katty]

Hi,

Please go through the below example, Which will demonstrate you the concept of the encapsulation i.e data hiding & abstraction:

Example:

public class BoxDemo
{

private int ht;
private int len;
private int wid;



public void setLen(int a)

{
len = a;
}

public void setWidth(int a)

{
wid = a;
}

public void setHeight(int a)

{
ht = a;
}

public int displVol()

{
System.out.print(len*wid*ht);

}

}

[kelfro]

Hi,

*. Obviously abstraction is confusing because it can be used as an entity as well as process.

*. The process of enclosing one or more data items into a containeris normally referred as Encapsulation.

*. Abstraction describes the behavior of the data object.