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The Cocoa frameworks. The classes in Foundation provide objects and functionality that are the basis, or “foundation,” of Cocoa. The classes in Application Kit furnish the objects and behavior that your users see in the user interface, such as windows and buttons, and handle their mouse clicks and key presses.
The library is essentially a set of functions that you can call, these days usually organized into classes. Each call does some work and returns control to the client. A Framework embodies some abstract design, with more behavior built in.
Both Cocoa and Cocoa Touch include the Objective-C runtime and two core frameworks: Cocoa, which includes the Foundation and AppKit frameworks, is used for developing applications that run on OS X. Cocoa Touch, which includes Foundation and UIKit frameworks, is used for developing applications that run on iOS.
A framework is a hierarchical directory that encapsulates shared resources, such as a dynamic shared library, nib files, image files, localized strings, header files, and reference documentation in a single package. Multiple applications can use all of these resources simultaneously.
I have the following requirement.
I need to implement dll kind of thing on mac.I need to create a backend library which can be loaded dynamically.This backend library will contain the cocoa classes and c++ classes.
What is advantage/disadvantage of cocoa framework,I was googling so far,I was not able to figure out the best one.Please give me some suggestion.Is cocoa framework also loaded dynamically?
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