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What Does Implementation Mean?

Implementation is often used in the tech world to describe the interactions of elements in programming languages. In Java, where the word is frequently used, to implement is to recognize and use an element of code or a programming resource that is written into the program.

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Techopedia Explains Implementation

In Java, an interface or the abstract type used to denote an interface must be implemented by classes. The interfaces that a certain class implements determine whether various aspects of these classes are "known" by another class, or what kinds of knowledge one class has about another.

One aspect of implementing an interface that can cause confusion is the requirement that to implement an interface, a class must implement all of the methods of that interface. This can lead to error messages due to insufficient implementation of methods. In general, the syntactical requirements of implementation and other Java tasks can be a burden for developers, and mastering this is part of becoming an in-depth Java user.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.