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Ans. Java provides a default constructor ( no argument ) if no constructor is provided by the programmer. Java makes a check during pre compilation if there is any constructor provided by the programmer. If any constructor is provided, Java understands that programmer has provided all the mechanism for initialization and construction of the object and may not even intend to create objects by calling a no argument constructor. For example - One may like to have objects created with self defined state otherwise restrict its creation.
We make the constructor private if we want to make a class singleton as we would like to restrict creation of new objects using new operator and default constructor. Similar could be the situation wherein we would like to construct objects in a particular manner only.
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Ans. Constructor's objective is to initialize member elements. If we don't deviate from that and don't have methods with logic in them, I don't see an issue with constructor's calling other methods assuming the methods are doing nothing but initialization. There are situations wherein we classify the member elements based on their type and hence having different initialization methods for different element types will give a better abstracted way to initialize them.
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Ans. I would avoid that. If we need to initialize member elements differently on the basis of some condition, I would prefer having overloaded constructors. I don't see a need to have a loop for initializing member elements unless the count of elements is huge and they all need to be initialized with common value.
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Ans. Classes having only static methods in java is called util classes. As they don't have specific object state, they are basically intend to have shared code and state through static elements and methods. They save resources by sharing code.
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Ans. Though it's useful but it's not as useful as overriding member or object methods. We cannot achieve polymorphic behavior with static methods by overriding their definition in derived class.
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Ans. I like to keep the names in Capital Camel case. Moreover I prefer to keep the names for classes, enums and interfaces such that they are easily distinguishable just by the pattern of their names.
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Ans. whenever a reference is created in Java without assigning the object
like
String str;
It get's assigned to null. So null provides a temporary memory location which any reference can point to till an appropriate object is assigned. Moreover it denotes that nothing has been assigned yet and hence provides a check in many cases.
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Ans. Null means nothing and hence means it's being assigned something till anything can be assigned to the reference. Null is a common memory location that get's assigned to any object reference till an actual object is assigned.
Empty object may not have a programmer initialized state but still a separate object in memory that has been assigned the placeholders.
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Null value means that the value is yet to be assigned or need not be assigned whereas empty value means that the blank value has already been assigned once. Null is the default for the null able columns that hasn't be assigned any value.
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Ans. We can declare the reference as final to avoid reassignment but again we can always initialize the final reference to null. Even if there was any such facility available , it would have meant poor use of resources by assigning a new object in memory to each reference that's created. Many a times references are just meant to refer to other objects which already have a reference i.e sharing object by multiple references.
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