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Q273. What is an object's lock and which object's have locks?
Ans. An object's lock is a mechanism that is used by multiple threads to obtain synchronized access to the object. A thread may execute a synchronized method of an object only after it has acquired the object's lock. All objects and classes have locks. A class's lock is acquired on the class's Class object.
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Ans. JSON is "JavaScript Object Notation", primarily used for client-server or server-server communication. Its a much lighter and readable alternative to XML. JSON is language independent and is easily parse-able in all programming languages.
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Q279. What is an API ( Application Programming Interface ) ?
Ans. An API is a kind of technical contract which defines functionality that two parties must provide: a service provider (often called an implementation) and an application. an API simply defines services that a service provider (i.e., the implementation) makes available to applications.
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Ans. Tomcat is a web server and a Servlet container. It is often used as an application server for web-based applications but does not include the complete suite of capabilities that a Java EE application server would supply.
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Q283. What are the default or implicitly assigned values for data types in java ?
Ans. boolean ---> false byte ----> 0 short ----> 0 int -----> 0 long ------> 0l char -----> /u0000 float ------> 0.0f double ----> 0.0d any object reference ----> null
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Ans. One can import the same package or same class multiple times. Neither compiler nor JVM complains wil complain about it. And the JVM will internally load the class only once no matter how many times you import the same class.
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Ans. An asynchronous event is one that occurs at an unpredictable time outside the control of the program that the CPU is running. It is not "synchronized" with the program.
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Ans. Suppose that a software group traditionally starts the body of every class with comments providing important information: public class Generation3List extends Generation2List {
// Author: John Doe // Date: 3/17/2002 // Current revision: 6 // Last modified: 4/12/2004 // By: Jane Doe // Reviewers: Alice, Bill, Cindy
// class code goes here
} To add this same metadata with an annotation, you must first define the annotation type. The syntax for doing this is: @interface ClassPreamble { String author(); String date(); int currentRevision() default 1; String lastModified() default "N/A"; String lastModifiedBy() default "N/A"; // Note use of array String[] reviewers(); } The annotation type definition looks similar to an interface definition where the keyword interface is preceded by the at sign (@) (@ = AT, as in annotation type). Annotation types are a form of interface, which will be covered in a later lesson. For the moment, you do not need to understand interfaces. The body of the previous annotation definition contains annotation type element declarations, which look a lot like methods. Note that they can define optional default values. After the annotation type is defined, you can use annotations of that type, with the values filled in, like this: @ClassPreamble ( author = "John Doe", date = "3/17/2002", currentRevision = 6, lastModified = "4/12/2004", lastModifiedBy = "Jane Doe", // Note array notation reviewers = {"Alice", "Bob", "Cindy"} ) public class Generation3List extends Generation2List {
// class code goes here
}
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Q288. What are few of the Annotations pre defined by Java?
Ans. @Deprecated annotation indicates that the marked element is deprecated and should no longer be used. The compiler generates a warning whenever a program uses a method, class, or field with the @Deprecated annotation.
@Override annotation informs the compiler that the element is meant to override an element declared in a superclass.
@SuppressWarnings annotation tells the compiler to suppress specific warnings that it would otherwise generate.
@SafeVarargs annotation, when applied to a method or constructor, asserts that the code does not perform potentially unsafe operations on its varargsparameter. When this annotation type is used, unchecked warnings relating to varargs usage are suppressed.
@FunctionalInterface annotation, introduced in Java SE 8, indicates that the type declaration is intended to be a functional interface, as defined by the Java Language Specification.
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Ans. @Retention annotation specifies how the marked annotation is stored:
@Documented annotation indicates that whenever the specified annotation is used those elements should be documented using the Javadoc tool. (By default, annotations are not included in Javadoc.)
@Target annotation marks another annotation to restrict what kind of Java elements the annotation can be applied to.
@Inherited annotation indicates that the annotation type can be inherited from the super class. (This is not true by default.) When the user queries the annotation type and the class has no annotation for this type, the class' superclass is queried for the annotation type. This annotation applies only to class declarations.
@Repeatable annotation, introduced in Java SE 8, indicates that the marked annotation can be applied more than once to the same declaration or type use. For more information, see Repeating Annotations.
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Ans. Only declaring variables as final makes them immutable. Making objects final means that the object handler cannot be used to target some other object but the object is still mutable.
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Static methods belong to the class and not the objects. They belong to the class and hence doesn't fit properly for the polymorphic behavior.
A static method is not associated with any instance of a class so the concept of overriding for runtime polymorphism using static methods is not applicable.
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