Prototype-Dased Object-Oriented Programming Style

This section provides a quick description of object-oriented programming and prototype-based programming style.

There are three primary goals of object-oriented programming:

These goals can be archived with two different programming styles:

JavaScript is a prototype-based programming language which supports encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance as described below:

See other sections of this chapter for detailed descriptions and tutorial examples of JavaScript prototype-based programming features.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction to JavaScript

 ECMAScript Language Specification and JavaScript Dialects

 Data Types, Variables and Expressions

 Flow Control Statements

 Creating, Accessing, and Manipulating Arrays

 Defining and Calling Functions

 Web Browser Supporting JavaScript

 Server-Side and Client-Side Web Scripting

 Introduction to Objects

Defining Your Own Object Types

Prototype-Dased Object-Oriented Programming Style

 Prototype-Based Programming Features in JavaScript

 Defining Object Constructor Functions

 Adding Properties and Methods to Objects

 "for ... in" and "for each ... in" Statements

 "prototype" Property of the Constructor Function Object

 "instanceof" Operator - Determining Object Type

 "typeof" Operator and Data Types

 Inheritance of Properties and Methods through the Prototype Object Chain

 'jrunscript' - JavaScript Shell Command from JDK

 Using Functions as "Function" Objects

 Introduction to Built-in Object Types

 W3C's Document Object Model (DOM) Specifications

 AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)

 References

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