Cocoa® Programming

Chapter 7. Foundation Framework Overview

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Mutability

• Class Clusters

• Typed Storage

• Collections

• Property Lists

• Run Loops and Timers

• Support Types

• String Processing

• Bundles

• File System Access

• Defaults System

• Notifications

• Related Core Foundation

The Foundation framework contains the classes, functions, and data types that are used by all Cocoa applications. The Foundation framework is the foundation on which other Cocoa frameworks are built. Much of the power of the Cocoa frameworks results from the consistent use of foundation classes. Functions and methods throughout Cocoa use features provided by the Foundation framework. For example, methods that use strings use instances of the foundation NSString class.

The Foundation framework can be ...