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 Q391. Which methods of the Pattern class have equivalent methods in the String class? Core Java
Ans. split() and macthes()

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Very Frequently asked. Favorite question in walkins and telephonic interviews. Usually among first few questions. Asked in different variants. Must know for intermediate and expert professionals.Among Top 10 frequently asked questions.
  Q392. What is rule regarding overriding equals and hashCode method ?Core Java
Ans. A Class must override the hashCode method if its overriding the equals method.

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 Q393. What are the the methods to clear cache in Hibernate ?Hibernate
Ans. Evict() and clear(). Evist is used to clear a particular object from the cache whereas clear clears the complete local cache.

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 Q394. What are different types of second level cache ?Hibernate
Ans. 1. EHCache ( Easy Hibernate )
2. OSCache ( Open Symphony )
3. Swarm Cache ( JBoss )
4. Tree Cache ( JBoss )

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 Q395. Can we disable first level cache ? What should one do if we don't want an object to be cached ?Hibernate
Ans. No.We can either call evict after the object retrieval or can use separate sessions.

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 Q396. What is Hibernate ?Hibernate
Ans. Hibernate is a Java ORM Framework.

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 Q397. What are the different types of inheritance in Hibernate ?Hibernate
Ans. Table Per Class , Table per Sub Class , Table per Concrete Class

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  Q398. What is lazy fetching in Hibernate ?Hibernate
Ans. Lazy fetching is the technique of not loading the child objects when parent objects are loaded. By default Hibernate does not load child objects. One can specify whether to load them or not while doing the association.

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 Q399. Different types of Hibernate Instance States ?Hibernate
Ans. Transient - In this state, an instance is not associated with any persistence context
Persistent - In this state, an instance is associated with a persistence context
Detached - This is a state for an instance which was previously associated with a persistence context an has been currently closed dissociated

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 Q400. Is It Good to use Reflection in an application ? Why ?Core Java
Ans. no, It's like challenging the design of application.

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 Q401. Which class elements are not persisted ?Hibernate
Ans. Static and Transient.

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 Q402. What entries we make in the hibernate config file if we are not using hbm files but Annotations ?Hibernate
Ans. We configure Entity classes having annotated mappings.

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 Q403. How many SessionFactory and Session objects are created ?Java EE
Ans. Single SessionFactory object and multiple session objects for opening different session. Hibernate creates new Session object per thread.

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 Q404. What is the use of hbm2ddl Configuration in Hibernate ?Hibernate
Ans. This configuration specifies if hibernate should creates the Schema / Table on its own if the respective table is not found.

"update" doesn't create the table if it's not found whereas configuration set as "create" creates the schema automatically.

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 Q405. What is the difference between these 2 annotations ?

@Entity

@Entity ( name="EMPLOYEES" )
Hibernate
Ans. The first annotation will try to map the Class with the Table as of same name as Class whereas the second annotation will specify the Entity name as "EMPLOYEES" and hence will try to map with Table Name "EMPLOYEES".

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 Q406. What is the difference between these 2 annotations ?

@Entity ( name ="EMPLOYEES")
@Entity @Table ( name=""EMPLOYEES"" )

@Entity ( name="EMP")
@Table ( name="EMPLPYEES" )
Hibernate
Ans. First Annotation will set the Entity name as EMPLOYEES and hence will try to map with the same Table name.

The second annotation will make the Entity mapped to table EMPLOYEES irrespective of the Entity Name ( which is class name in this case ).

Third Annotations will set the different names for Enitity and Table and will explicitly map them.

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 Q407. What are the different ID generating strategies using @GeneratedValue annotation ?Hibernate
Ans. Auto , Identity , Sequence and Table.

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 Q408. How to do Eager loading in Hibernate ?Hibernate
Ans. Using

lazy = false in hibernate config file

or

@Basic(fetch=FetchType.EAGER) at the mapping

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 Q409. What is cascade ?Hibernate
Ans. Instead of Saving Parent as well as Child Entities individually , Hibernate provides the option to persist / delete the related entities when the Parent is persisted.

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 Q410. What are the different Cascade types ?Hibernate
Ans. Detach, Merge , Persist , Remove , Refresh

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 Q411. Which type of associated Entities are Eagerly loaded by Default ?Hibernate
Ans. OneToOne

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 Q412. After which Hibernate version , related Entities are initialized lazily ?Hibernate
Ans. After Hibernate 3.0

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 Q413. Can we declare Entity class as final ?Hibernate
Ans. Yes but as Hibernate creates the Proxy Classes inherited from the Entity Classes to communicate with Database for lazy initialization. Declaring entity classes as final will prohibit communication with database lazily and hence will be a performance hit.

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 Q414. What is the difference between int[] x; and int x[]; ?Core Java
Ans. No Difference. Both are the acceptable ways to declare an array.

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 Q415. What are the annotations used in Junit with Junit4 ?
Ans. @Test

The Test annotation indicates that the public void method to which it is attached can be run as a test case.

@Before

The Before annotation indicates that this method must be executed before each test in the class, so as to execute some preconditions necessary for the test.

@BeforeClass

The BeforeClass annotation indicates that the static method to which is attached must be executed once and before all tests in the class.

@After

The After annotation indicates that this method gets executed after execution of each test.

@AfterClass

The AfterClass annotation can be used when a method needs to be executed after executing all the tests in a JUnit Test Case class so as to clean-up the set-up.

@Ignores

The Ignore annotation can be used when you want temporarily disable the execution of a specific test.

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Frequently asked these days as there are major changes in Java 8.
  Q416. What are new features introduced with Java 8 ?Core Java
Ans. Lambda Expressions , Interface Default and Static Methods , Method Reference , Parameters Name , Optional , Streams, Concurrency.

  Sample Code for Lambda

  Sample Code for interface default

  Sample Code for Optional

  Sample Code for Streams

  Sample Code for java.time

  Sample Code for Predicate

  Sample Code for Consumer

  Sample Code for MapMerge

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 Q417. Can we access Interface static method using Interface references ?
Ans. No, only using Interface Name.

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 Q418. Can we have default method with same name and signature in the derived Interface as the static method in base Interface and vice versa ?
Ans. Yes , we can do that as static methods are not accessible using references and hence cannot lead to conflict. We cannot do inverse as Default methods cannot be overridden with the static methods in derived interface.

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 Q419. What is the difference between namenode and datanode in Hadoop? BigData
Ans. NameNode stores MetaData (No of Blocks, On Which Rack which DataNode is stored etc) whereas the DataNode stores the actual Data.

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 Q420. Write a program to see if the number is perfect number or not ?Core Java
Ans. http://www.c4learn.com/c-programs/program-to-check-whether-number-is.html

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