Use of interfaces

The Plastic Base application, like the TF8560 Plastic Technology Functions, is based on working with interfaces. For this purpose, a standard interface exists on the part of the Plastic Base Application for almost every class, which provides access to the relevant properties and methods.

For many practical use cases in programming, access via an interface turns out to be much clearer. For example, methods for internal communication between two classes as well as other properties are not visible.

When extending a class using inheritance (see section Inheritance), it is also possible to extend the corresponding standard interface. This can be accomplished in a comparable way to inheriting a class with the keyword EXTENDS.