Class Encapsulation

Class Encapsulation is the most commonly used form of Encapsulation in modern programming languages. Objects are encapsulated by their underlying objects. This means that:

• Objects can see/modify the contents of any other objects that are instances of the same class.
• Objects can see/modify the contents of their superclass (this is language specific)
• Objects cannot see/modify the contents of any other objects.

This type of Encapsulation exists in contrast to Object Encapsulation.

Usage

This, or a modified form of, is the encapsulation technique of languages such as C++, C#, Java and Python.

See Also

• Encapsulation
• Encapsulation boundary
• Object Encapsulation