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Ans. New operator in Java creates objects. Constructor is the later step in object creation. Constructor's job is to initialize the members after the object has reserved memory for itself. | ||||
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Ans. FALSE. == operator compares object references, a and b are references to two different objects, hence the FALSE. .equals method is used to compare string object content. | ||||
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Ans. Volatile is a declaration that a variable can be accessed by multiple threads and hence shouldnt be cached. | ||||
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Ans. If we don't declare the list to be of specific type, it treats it as list of objects. int 1 is auto boxed to Integer and "1" is String and hence both are objects. | ||||
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Ans. Bootstrap - Loads JDK internal classes, java.* packages. Extensions - Loads jar files from JDK extensions directory - usually lib/ext directory of the JRE System - Loads classes from system classpath. | ||||
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Ans. A DOM (Document Object Model) parser creates a tree structure in memory from an input document whereas A SAX (Simple API for XML) parser does not create any internal structure. A SAX parser serves the client application always only with pieces of the document at any given time whereas A DOM parser always serves the client application with the entire document no matter how much is actually needed by the client. A SAX parser, however, is much more space efficient in case of a big input document whereas DOM parser is rich in functionality. Use a DOM Parser if you need to refer to different document areas before giving back the information. Use SAX is you just need unrelated nuclear information from different areas. Xerces, Crimson are SAX Parsers whereas XercesDOM, SunDOM, OracleDOM are DOM parsers. | ||||
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Ans. MVC is a Design Pattern that facilititates loose coupling by segregating responsibilities in a Web application 1. Controller receives the requests and handles overall control of the request 2. Model holds majority of the Business logic, and 3. View comprise of the view objects and GUI component | ||||
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Ans. 1)The overriding methods can throw any runtime Exception , here in the case of runtime exception overriding method (subclass method) should not worry about exception being thrown by superclass method. 2)If superclass method does not throw any exception then while overriding, the subclass method can not throw any new checked exception but it can throw any runtime exception 3) Different exceptions in java follow some hierarchy tree(inheritance). In this case , if superclass method throws any checked exception , then while overriding the method in subclass we can not throw any new checked exception or any checked exception which are higher in hierarchy than the exception thrown in superclass method | ||||
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Ans. All exceptions must be a child of Throwable. If you want to write a checked exception that is automatically enforced by the Handle or Declare Rule, you need to extend the Exception class. You want to write a runtime exception, you need to extend the RuntimeException class. | ||||
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Ans. Inheritance means a object inheriting reusable properties of the base class. Compositions means that an abject holds other objects. In Inheritance there is only one object in memory ( derived object ) whereas in Composition , parent object holds references of all composed objects. From Design perspective - Inheritance is "is a" relationship among objects whereas Composition is "has a" relationship among objects. | ||||
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Ans. NullPointerException at line: "File file = new File("/folder", name);" | ||||
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Ans. @Entity @Table @Id @Column @Temporal @Basic @Enumerated @Access @Embeddable @Lob @AttributeOverride @Embedded @GeneratedValue @ElementCollection @JoinTable @JoinColumn @CollectionId @GenericGenerator @OneToOne @OneToMany @ManyToOne @ManyToMany @NotFound | ||||
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Ans. StringJoiner is a util method to construct a string with desired delimiter. This has been introduced with wef from Java 8. Sample Code StringJoiner strJoiner = new StringJoiner("."); | ||||
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Ans. public or default | ||||
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Ans. Methods , Variables , Initialization Blocks and nested Classes | ||||
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Ans. We can override main method | ||||
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Ans. In first case we are trying to initialize Inner class object using the instance of Outer Class whereas in second case we are trying to initialize the Inner class object directly using the Outer class name. In second case , Inner class is "static inner class" as we cannot access "non static inner class" using Classname alone. In first case, the inner class could be either "static inner class" or "non static inner class". | ||||
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Ans. 1. Regulation / Enforcement / Policy / Contract , It's primary use 2. Use as a collection of utility methods(since java 8 through default methods) 3. Collecting constants together, As Interface are lighter, it makes sense to use them instead of classes if no getters and setters required. 4. Creation of Custom Annotations 5. Special services like marker interface | ||||
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Ans. Modularity - First sign of good code is whether it has been segregated into methods and classes appropriately. I dont mind it in excess because I believe that is forward looking strategy as applications tends to expand and eventually become hard to read. Self Explanatory - Variables and methods should be named in a way that the code should be self explanatory even without comments. Use of Constant variables to explain use of literal. Proper Code Reuse - If there is anything being reused , it should be moved to parent classes / methods. Proper composition calls - Composed hierarchy should not be access in just single line. One or two levels is ok but having multiple levels make it hard to read and debug. | ||||
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Ans. We can overload the main method by specifying different argument types. For example - 2 main methods with different arguments is perfectly legal public static void main(); public static void main(String[] args); The following are not legal as compiler will complain of duplicate methods public static void main(String[] args); public static void main(String[] args); Even The following are not legal as we cannot overload on return types public static String main(String[] args); public static void main(String[] args); | ||||
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Ans. public class LinkedList { Node start = null; Node head = null; class Node{ Integer body; Node nextNode; Node(Integer value){ body = value; } } private void insertInMiddle(Integer value){ head = start; if(start == null) { start = new Node(value); head = start; head.nextNode = null; return; } while(head.body < value){ if(head.nextNode == null || head.nextNode.body >= value){ Node newNode = new Node(value); newNode.nextNode = head.nextNode; head.nextNode = newNode; break; } head = head.nextNode; } } private void traverse(){ head = start; while(head != null){ System.out.println(head.body); head = head.nextNode; } } public static void main(String[] args){ LinkedList ll = new LinkedList(); ll.insertInMiddle(5); ll.insertInMiddle(10); ll.insertInMiddle(15); ll.insertInMiddle(7); ll.traverse(); } } | ||||
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Ans. Interfaces don't have member elements and method definitions that could cause diamond problem. With Java 8, Interfaces have default method definitions. This could have created diamond problem but Java introduced a compile time check for "duplicate default methods" in case same method is derived from multiple interfaces and no definition is overridden by the class. | ||||
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Ans. Step 1 - We can create a Registry Class having Map of all created objects as key and References list as value. Step 2 - Whenever we create an object , we should update the Registry in the constructor to add the new object. Step 3 - Whenever we assign a new reference to the object , we need to update the entry in Map. Similarly if the reference get's removed ( end of scope etc ), we need to remove the entry of reference from the list. Step 4 - We can have threaded code to monitor the Map to see if any object looses all it's references and should call the method to destroy object and clean the memory. | ||||
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Ans. AMI is an Amazon Machine Image. It contains the configuration to enable to boot up an EC2 instance with said configuration whereas Cloud formation is a templating language that allows to describe how to build a VPC and also allows you to create AWS services AMI is templating specific to instances whereas the scope of CloudFormation templating is much bigger. CloudFormation could use AMI for launching instances along with other services. | ||||
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Ans. boolean - java.lang.Boolean byte - java.lang.Byte char - java.lang.Character double - java.lang.Double float - java.lang.Float int - java.lang.Integer long - java.lang.Long short - java.lang.Short void - java.lang.Void | ||||
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Ans. java.lang.StringBuffer. | ||||
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Ans. There can be two different elements with the same hashcode. When two elements have the same hashcode then Java uses the equals to further differentation. So there can be one or two objects depending on the content of the objects. | ||||
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Ans. 1. Multithreading provides better interaction with the user by distribution of task 2. Threads in Java appear to run concurrently, so it provides simulation for simultaneous activities.The processor runs each thread for a short time and switches among the threads to simulate sim-ultaneous execution (context-switching) and it make appears that each thread has its own processor.By using this feature, users can make it appear as if multiple tasks are occurring simultaneously when, in fact, each is running for only a brief time before the context is switched to the next thread. 3. We can do other things while waiting for slow I/O operations.In the java.iopackage, the class InputStreamhas a method, read(), that blocks until a byte is read from the stream or until an IOExceptionis thrown. The thread that executes this method cannot do anything elsewhile awaiting the arrival of another byte on the stream. | ||||
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Ans. They are wrappers to primitive data types. They allow us to access primitives as objects. | ||||
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