Abstraction In Java

Abstraction in Java

Abstraction is the concept of exposing only the required essential characteristics and behavior with respect to a context.

Hiding of data is known as data abstraction. In object oriented programming language this is implemented automatically while writing the code in the form of class and object.

Real Life Example of Abstraction

Abstraction shows only important things to the user and hides the internal details for example when we ride a bike, we only know about how to ride bike but can not know about how it work ? and also we do not know internal functionality of bike.

Note: Data abstraction can be used to provide security for the data from the unauthorized methods.

Note: In java language data abstraction can be achieve using class.

Example of Abstraction

class Customer
{
int account_no;
float balance_Amt;
String name;
int age;
String address;
void balance_inquiry()
{
/* to perform balance inquiry only account number
is required that means remaining properties 
are hidden for balance inquiry method */
}
void fund_Transfer()
{
/* To transfer the fund account number and 
balance is required and remaining properties 
are hidden for fund transfer method */
}

How to achieve Abstraction ?

There are two ways to achieve abstraction in java

• Abstract class (0 to 100%)
• Interface (Achieve 100% abstraction)

Read more about Interface and Abstract class in previous section.

Difference between Encapsulation and Abstraction

Encapsulation is not provides fully security because we can access private member of the class using reflation API, but in case of Abstraction we can't access static, abstract data member of class.