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 Q2521. Can we send a request body with the Get Request ? If not, What is the alternate to pass message to the Get Request ?Web Service
Ans. Request Body in case of Get Request has no meaning and hence it's not parsed when the request is received. Alternatively Request Parameters are passed as either Path Params or Query Params.

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 Q2522. Can we declare a main method as abstract ?
Ans. No. Static methods cannot be overridden and hence make no sense to be declared abstract.

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 Q2523. How are POJO's and DTO's related ?
Ans. DTO's are a kind of POJO's that are intended to transfer information across different architecture layers.

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 Q2524. What are VO ?
Ans. VO or Value objects are the objects that are supposed to hold some value. For Example , Integer, Float , Money etc.

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 Q2525. What is POJO ?
Ans. POJO is Plain Java Object that holds only Member Elements , getters are setters and minimal processing on that. The primary purpose of such object is to either transfer information or keeping state for a while. They are not intended to provide any processing or transformation.

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 Q2526. What is DAO ?
Ans. DAO is Data Access Object which is used within Persistence Layer to make Database Transaction. For example , the class holding the Database connection and CRUD methods.

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 Q2527. What is DTO ?
Ans. DTO is Data Transfer Object i.e Pojo which is supposed to move between different layers of software architecture for transferring information. Example could be the object passed from client in case of web service call or the object passed to Persister for Database Persistence.

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 Q2528. How does the String Class stores the string in memory ?Core Java
Ans. It stores the string as a character array with 2 bytes for each character.

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 Q2529. What are the disadvantages of running multiple apps in single JVM ?Core Java
Ans. 1. Issue with Jar and ClassPath Conflicts

2. Killing JVM will terminate all applications

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 Q2530. Any real life example of Overloading and Overridding ?
Ans. All members of a family share a common last name and thats how outsiders recognize them, but to recognize individual team members , we need an overloaded name and hence we use First Name along with Last Name to uniquely identify.

Some members of a family have a Nick Name as the real name is very long or hard to call. So the Nick name overrides the Original Name in certain circumstances.

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 Q2531. If you are given a choice to have a functionality shared either through dependency or through a Web service, which one will you choose ?Solution
Ans. Web Service promotes looser coupling but with comes with coding and performance overheads. Jars provide better performance and may be lesser coding but are problematic with update distribution. If the situation doesn't require frequent dependency updates and if it's only read operation of persistence, Having dependencies should be a better choice , otherwise web service.

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 Q2532. What is CRUD ?Database
Ans. CRUD stands for "Create, read, update and delete" are the basic functions of persistence.

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 Q2533. Is a method name same as Class name permissible in Java ?
Ans. Yes, But the method should have some return type as otherwise it will be treated as a constructor.

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 Q2534. Why doesn't Java even allow void return types for Constructors ?
Ans. Because having a void return type with the Constructor name will make it as a method name. As methods with the Class names are perfectly legit in Java, It needs some way to recognize the constructor and having none return type helps identify that.

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 Q2535. Does Constructor returns the reference of the newly created object ?
Ans. No, New operator actually returns the reference of newly created object. Constructor's purpose is to initialize the default state of the object by setting the initial values of the elements and hence returns nothing.

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 Q2536. Is New Keyword a method Name ?Core Java
Ans. No, Its an Operator.

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All these acronyms JDK,JRE,JVM etc are very frequently asked.
 Q2537. Difference between JDK and JRE ?Core Java
Ans. JRE or Java Runtime Environment is the Java Virtual Machine on which class files are executed. It includes borwser plugins that facilitates execution of class files in browsers.

JDK or Java Development Kit includes JRE , compiler and development tools.

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 Q2538. What will happen if we have our own constructor but only initialize some of the member elements ?
Ans. Its always advisable to initialize all the member elements in case we don't use the compiler's default constructor as leftover member elements will have garbage values and may reflect and unstable state for the object.

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 Q2539. Is it advisable to set the member variables through constructors instead of setting them through setters ?
Ans. Yes , If the values to be set are known at the time of initialization and doesn't involve polymorphic behavior.If it's using Dependency Injection , then Constructor injection must be available. If it suffice the above conditions, then definitely its advisable to have them set through constructor as they eagerly load the values into the memory and save it fro multiple values assignment ( one through default constructor and then through assignment )

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 Q2540. What are the fail fast systems ?
Ans. Fail fast systems are intolerant systems that fails at the first instance of smelling any problem. The objective here is to break the system instead of continuing with the possibly flawed processing. Example could be breaking the processing upon an exception.

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 Q2541. What are the fail safe systems ?Operating System
Ans. Fail Safe systems are tolerant systems that continue processing even if they sense any problem. the objective here is to continue with the processing even if there are some problems instead of completely shutting it down. Example could be to catch an exception and still letting it complete with partial results.

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 Q2542. What are fail-fast Iterators ?Core Java
Ans. Fail-fast iterators detect illegal concurrent modification during iteration and fail quickly and cleanly rather than risking arbitrary, non deterministic behavior at an undetermined time in future. Example could be of an Iterator failing if it smells ConcurrentModificationException.

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Frequently asked. Among first few questions in the J2EE segment of interview.
  Q2543. What is deployment descriptor ?

or

What is the use of deployment descriptor ?
Java EE
Ans. Deployment Descriptor which is usually web.xml is used to specify the classes, resources and configuration of the application and how the web server uses them to serve web requests.This file is usually added to WEB-INF folder and contains following

* Servlet entries and url mapping
* Plugins
* Some info regarding authentication / filters
* Landing Page
* Event Handlers

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 Q2544. What are constructors and Destructors in Java ?Core Java
Ans. Constructors are used for initializing the object state once it is initialized and memory has been reserved for it.

Destructor is used to de-allocate memory allocated by objects.

There are no destructors in Java. Alternatively, Java provides Automatic garbage collection i.e automatically releasing the un-referenced memory.


  Sample Code for constructor

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 Q2545. What are instance methods ?
Ans. All methods defined in a class that are not marked static are actually instance methods.

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 Q2546. Can you give a real world example of Encapsulation and Abstraction ?Core Java
Ans. Car Engine is an example of encapsulation and abstraction. You ignite the car using an interface called starter and least bothered about how the tire actually moves (This is abstraction). The engine encapsulates the complete process to itself only and doesn't allow you to start the other components like the radiator etc ( this is excapsulation )

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 Q2547. Does compiler treats it differently if we don't prefix this to the member element and its implicit as its the only variable available with that name ?
Ans. It makes no difference whether we add this to the variable or not. The only use of this is in the cases where there are multiple variables with the same name and we want to distinguish between the member variable and local variable. In case this is not added ,this is automatically added by the compiler in the byte code.

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This question can be asked in different variants like performace improvement of an application, improving performance for DB communication etc.
 Q2548. What are the ways in which execution time of the code can be improved ?Solution
Ans. This depends on entirely upon the code type. For example

1.If its just logic, we can try it to short circuit or put the if / switch case with maximum probability in the beginning.

2. Can use faster data structures, for eg - random retrieval instead of sequence / iterator

3. Working with primitive types or even bytes instead of Objects, even though it may result in marginal improvement.

4. If its service call, then service call with bulk load can help

5. If DB Operation, then with use of Indices , Views or using ORM , cache etc.


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 Q2549. Which of the following Java features facilitates Dependency Injection - Inheritance or Composition ?
Ans. Composition for sure. Inheritance in case the reference of a parent class is used. If its interface, no Inheritance involved.

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 Q2550. What is the difference between declaration, instantiation and initialization ?Core Java
Ans. Declaration is intimation to the compiler about the nature of Data a reference is going to hold.

For example - List myList;

Instantiation is reservation of memory.

For example

myList = new ArrayList();

Initialization or construction is setting the default values for member elements.

For example

myList = new ArrayList(mySet);

** Example 2nd is both for instantiation as well as initialization. The only difference is that 2nd will initialized the member elements to their default values whereas 3rd will initialized it with the elements from set.


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