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Q451. Explain Generics in Java ?

Ans. Generics are a facility of generic programming that were added to the Java programming language in 2004 within J2SE5.0. They allow "a type or method to operate on objects of various types while providing compile-time type safety.

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Q452. How can we convert a character or a character array into a String ?

Core Java

Ans. String has an argument constructor that take char array as argument and creates a string.

There is no constructor available with String that takes in a character and creates a String. We can use StringBuilder which has a char argument constructor.

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Q453. How can we convert String into Char array and vice versa ?

Core Java

Ans. There is a method toCharArray() within String class that can be used to convert string to char array.

string.toCharArray();

String class has an argument constructor that takes a char array and create a string

new String(charArray);

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Q454. In which memory segment - heap or stack, the following stored by JVM

1. static members
2. objects
3. object references
4. local or method variables

Core Java

Ans. static members are stored in method area of heap

objects are stored on heap

object references are stored on stack

local or method variables are stored on stack

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Q455. Why can't we have diamond problem with interfaces ?

Core Java

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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Q456. Why the following code produced this output ?

int x = 5;
int y = x;
y = 10;

System.out.println(x); // prints 5 and not 10

Core Java

Ans. Because when we say y = x, the value of x is copied to another memory location and then y points to that new memory location.

Unlike object references that once assigned point to same object in memory, value is copied in case of variable assignment.

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Q457. How different is it when final applied to variables and object references ?

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Ans. final when assigned to object references doesn't make them immutable. It means that the references cannot be de-referenced.

final when applied to variables means that the value cannot be changed.

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Q458. When we say final x = 10, is the reference final or the value ?

Core Java

Ans. final keyword have meaning only to referenced and not the value. It means that the specified reference cannot be dereferenced. It doesn't control the value assigned to the memory that's being referenced. This is the reason that final object references doesn't mean that the object is immutable but means that the reference cannot be changed to point to new object.

In case of primitive types too, when we assign a reference to another, values are passed and not the object reference, and hence a new placeholder is created in memory with the same value. That is why final to that context means that you cannot change the assigned memory and there is no way we can have that memory place have another value.

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Q459. What are ascii values for capital and lower case alphabets ?

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Ans. 65 to 90 for capital case alphabets

97 to 122 for lower case alphabets

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Q460. How can we check if a particular character is upper case in Java ?

Core Java

Ans. 1. We can compare the ascii value of the character. Ascii for Capital case character is from 65 to 90.

2. We can compare to see if lowerCase of the character is not equal to character itself.

For example -

if character is 'a' the following code

new StringBuilder(char).toString().toLowerCase().equals(new StringBuilder(char)

will return true and hence char is lower case

if character is 'A' the following code

new StringBuilder(char).toString().toLowerCase().equals(new StringBuilder(char)

will return false and hence char is upper case

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Q461. How can we convert char into a String ?

Core Java

Ans. We can use StringBuilder. StringBuilder accepts char as the argument for it's constructor.

new StringBuilder('').toString();

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Q462. Do we have a method to reverse a string in String class ?

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Ans. No but we have it in StringBuilder.

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Q463. What will the following code print

int x[] = new int[5];
x[0] = 1;
x[1] = 2;

for(int count=0;count<=x.length;count++){
System.out.println(x[count]);
}

Core Java

Ans. 1
2
0
0
0
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException: 5

As array index starts with 0 and ends with the index of (size - 1), the index 5 is inaccessible for the array and hence will throw the exception.

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Q464. What will the following code print ?

int x[] = new int[5];
x[0] = 1;
x[1] = 2;

for(int count=0;count<x.length;count++){
System.out.println(x[count]);
}

Core Java

Ans. 1
2
0
0
0

As arrays are not dynamically expanded , we have declared the array for size 10. As we have only initialized only 2 values , it will print rest as their default values.

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Q465. Write a Program to check if the entered number is a Duck Number ( Number having 0 in it ) ?

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Q466. What is nested if ?

Core Java

Ans. if statements nested within another if or else blocks are called nested if statements.

if(condition1) {
if(condition2){
}
}

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Q467. Difference between if and switch ? Can we replace all switch statements with if statements ?

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Ans. if statement is used to do 2 direction branching whereas switch is used to do multi direction branching in Java.

Yes we can replace all switch statements with nested if statements.

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Q468. Can we synchronize the run() method in Java?

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Q469. Is a string an array of characters in Java ?

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Ans. No, String is a class whose objects are called strings in Java.

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Q470. How do you know if a method is a constructor ?

Core Java

Ans. Is the method name same as class Name - Yes

Does the method have any return type ( even void ) - No

It's a constructor

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Q471. What will be the output of following code and Why ?

int x = 5;
int y = 7;
float f = 5f;
float z = y / x * f;
System.out.println(z);

Core Java

Ans. 5.0

operation between two ints generate int only. so 7/5 generates 1 and not 1.4. Multiplication between int and float generates float and hence

1 * 5.0 = 5.0

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Q472. Is it a bad practice to initialize object reference to Null ?

Core Java

Ans. never initialise local to null,yes it is bad pratice

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Q473. What is the difference between hasNextInt and nextInt method of scanner class ?

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Ans. The hasNextInt() is used to check if there are any more elements left and the nextInt() is used to access that element.

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Q474. Is this a valid initialization ? Explain.

Collection<Collection> collection = new LinkedList<LinkedList>();

Core Java

Ans. No. It will result in a type mismatch error.

Collection<Collection> collection = new LinkedList<Collection>();

is a valid initialization as collection being reference of "Collection" class can hold object of derived Class "LinkedList" due to runtime Polymorphism. Runtime polymorphism is not applicable to type arguments.

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Q475. What is the difference between Java SE Map and Apache Commons MultiMap ? How can we implement functionality similar to multimap using Java SE map ?

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Ans. We can have duplicate keys within MultiMap whereas we cannot have duplicate keys within Java Util Map.

We can have a Map with value as a "collection of values" instead of single value to have a similar function as Multimap.

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Q476. What is the difference between return and break statement ?

Core Java

Ans. return is used within a method to return control out of the method. It may be followed by a value which is returned from the method to calling method immediately preceding the point of call.

break statement is used within a loop to move control out of the loop.

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Q477. What is the difference between return and continue statement ?

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Ans. return is used within a method to return control out of the method. It may be followed by a value which is returned from the method to calling method immediately preceding the point of call.

continue statement is used within a loop to start next iteration without executing the remaining statements in the loop.

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Q478. What will be the output upon executing main method

public class Graph {
   private static Multimap<Integer,Integer> adjacentDirectedNodesMap = ArrayListMultimap.create();

   Graph(){
      adjacentDirectedNodesMap.put(1, 2);
      adjacentDirectedNodesMap.put(1, 3);
      adjacentDirectedNodesMap.put(1, 4);
      adjacentDirectedNodesMap.put(3, 5);
      adjacentDirectedNodesMap.put(4, 5);
   }

   public static void main(String[] args){
      ArrayList visited = new ArrayList();

      Integer startNode = 1;

      for(Integer adjacentNodes: adjacentDirectedNodesMap.get(startNode)){
            System.out.println(adjacentNodes);
      }
   }
}

Core Java

Ans. Nothing as we haven't yet created an instance and hence adjacentDirectedNodesMap won't be initialized with any value and hence is empty.

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Q479. What does the following initialization mean ?

ArrayList<LinkedList> traversalPaths = new ArrayList<LinkedList>();

What could be the use of such a collection.

Core Java

Ans. Initialize an ArrayList that will hold LinkedLists i.e every element of the arraylist will be a linked list.

Such collection could be used in algorithms that require first random access and then sequential traversal. For example - Storing traversal paths for a graph wherein we can start from any vertex. Implementing dictionary with each arraylist element holding staring with character and then linked list holding duplicate words.

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Q480. Is String final in Java ?

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Ans. Strings are immutable in Java and not final.

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