Microsoft007: December 2023

In Java, an object is an instance of a class. Objects can be created in multiple ways depending on the use case, such as direct instantiation, using frameworks, cloning, or even deserialization. These different approaches provide flexibility in how objects are constructed and managed in memory.

✅ There are 6 popular ways to create an object in Java:

1) Using the `new` Keyword

Definition:
This is the most common and straightforward way to create an object in Java by calling a class constructor using the new keyword.

Example:

java
MyClass obj = new MyClass();

Explanation:
The new keyword dynamically allocates memory and invokes the constructor to initialize the object.

2) Using Factory Method

Definition:
Factory methods are static methods that encapsulate object creation logic and return instances of a class, often used for flexibility and centralized creation logic.

Example 1:

java
public class MyClassFactory {
    public static MyClass createObject() {
        return new MyClass();
    }
}
MyClass obj = MyClassFactory.createObject();

Example 2 (Built-in):

java
Thread t = Thread.currentThread();

Explanation:
This pattern is useful when the instantiation process is complex, or when you want to return a subclass or a cached object instead of a new one every time.

3) Using Reflection API

Definition:
Reflection allows the program to inspect and manipulate classes, fields, and methods at runtime, and also create instances dynamically.

Example:

java
Class<?> clazz = Class.forName("MyClass");
Object obj = clazz.newInstance();  // Deprecated after Java 9
MyClass myObj = (MyClass) obj;

Improved version (Java 9+):

java
MyClass obj = MyClass.class.getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance();

Explanation:
Reflection is powerful but should be used cautiously due to performance overhead and security concerns. It's often used in frameworks like Spring and Hibernate.

4) Using Object Deserialization

Definition:
Deserialization is the process of reconstructing an object from its byte stream (which was previously serialized and saved to a file or other media).

Example:

java
try (ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream("object.ser"))) {
    MyClass obj = (MyClass) ois.readObject();
} catch (IOException | ClassNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Explanation:
This is used when you need to restore objects from storage (e.g., file, database) in a distributed or persistent application.

5) Using Dependency Injection (DI) Frameworks

Definition:
DI frameworks like Spring automatically manage object creation and injection into classes using annotations like @Autowired.

Example:

java
@Component
public class MyService {
    @Autowired
    private MyClass obj;
}

Explanation:
The object is created and injected by the container (e.g., Spring IoC container), not manually. This promotes loose coupling and easier testing.

6) Using `clone()` Method

Definition:
Cloning creates a duplicate (shallow or deep copy) of an existing object using the clone() method defined in the Object class.

Example:

java
class MyClass implements Cloneable {
    int value;
    public MyClass(int value) {
        this.value = value;
    }
    @Override
    public Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
        return super.clone();
    }
}

MyClass obj1 = new MyClass(10);
MyClass obj2 = (MyClass) obj1.clone();

Explanation:
To use clone(), the class must implement the Cloneable interface (a marker interface). It allows creation of a new object with the same field values.

✅ Summary Table:

Way	Method	Description
1	`new` keyword	Standard way using constructors
2	Factory Method	Static method returning object
3	Reflection	Dynamic creation using class name
4	Deserialization	Restore object from byte stream
5	Dependency Injection	Framework-driven object creation
6	`clone()` method	Copy existing object

2) What are the differences b/w HashMap and HashSet?

Both HashMap and HashSet are part of Java’s Collection Framework and use a hashing mechanism, but they serve different purposes. Here's a detailed comparison:

1.Key Differences

Feature HashMap HashSet
Definition HashMap stores the data in key-value pairs. Where as HashSet stores only objects or a collection of unique elements.
Implements `HashMap is an implementation Map<K, V>` interface. `Where as HashSet is an implementation of Set<E>` interface.
Duplicates Allowed? ✅ Keys must be unique but values can be duplicated. ❌ Only unique elements are allowed. //Duplicates are there then Ignored
Null Values ✅ One `null` key allowed, multiple `null` values allowed. ✅ Allows a single `null` value.
Internal Implementation Uses a hash table to store entries as (Key, Value) pairs. Uses a HashMap internally (stores elements as keys with a dummy value).
Performance (O(1)) Fast lookup via hashing, average O(1) time complexity for `put()`, `get()`. Similar hashing mechanism, average O(1) time complexity for `add()`, `contains()`.
Ordering ❌ No guaranteed order (Use `LinkedHashMap` for insertion order). ❌ No guaranteed order (Use `LinkedHashSet` for insertion order).
Usage Scenario When key-value mapping is needed. When only unique values are required.

Feature	HashMap	HashSet
Definition	HashMap stores the data in key-value pairs.	Where as HashSet stores only objects or a collection of unique elements.
Implements	`HashMap is an implementation Map<K, V>` interface.	`Where as HashSet is an implementation of Set<E>` interface.
Duplicates Allowed?	✅ Keys must be unique but values can be duplicated.	❌ Only unique elements are allowed. //Duplicates are there then Ignored
Null Values	✅ One `null` key allowed, multiple `null` values allowed.	✅ Allows a single `null` value.
Internal Implementation	Uses a hash table to store entries as (Key, Value) pairs.	Uses a HashMap internally (stores elements as keys with a dummy value).
Performance (O(1))	Fast lookup via hashing, average O(1) time complexity for `put()`, `get()`.	Similar hashing mechanism, average O(1) time complexity for `add()`, `contains()`.
Ordering	❌ No guaranteed order (Use `LinkedHashMap` for insertion order).	❌ No guaranteed order (Use `LinkedHashSet` for insertion order).
Usage Scenario	When key-value mapping is needed.	When only unique values are required.

2.How They Work Internally

👉 HashMap Internal Working

Stores elements as `(Key, Value)` pairs.

Uses hashing to determine the bucket index for a key.

If multiple keys map to the same bucket (hash collision), it uses LinkedList (before Java 8) or Balanced Tree (Red-Black Tree) (Java 8+) for efficient retrieval.

Example:

HashMap<Integer, String> map = new HashMap<>();

map.put(1, "Apple");

map.put(2, "Banana");

map.put(3, "Cherry");

System.out.println(map.get(2)); // Output: Banana

👉 HashSet Internal Working

Internally backed by a HashMap, where elements are stored as keys, and the values are a constant dummy object (PRESENT).

Ensures unique elements using the hashCode() and equals() method.

Example:

HashSet<String> set = new HashSet<>();
set.add("Apple");
set.add("Banana");
set.add("Cherry");
set.add("Apple");  // Duplicate ignored

System.out.println(set); // Output: [Apple, Banana, Cherry] (Unordered)

Internally, the above code works like:

private static final Object PRESENT = new Object();
HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("Apple", PRESENT);
map.put("Banana", PRESENT);
map.put("Cherry", PRESENT);

3.When to Use What?

Use Case	Use HashMap	Use HashSet
Need a key-value pair?	✅ Yes	❌ No
Need unique elements?	❌ No	✅ Yes
Need fast lookups?	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Need duplicate values?	✅ Yes (values can be duplicated)	❌ No

Example:
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;

public class HashMapSetEx {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // HashMap Example
        HashMap<Integer, String> hashMap = new HashMap<>();
        hashMap.put(1, "Apple");
        hashMap.put(null, "Banana"); //One null key allowed
        hashMap.put(3, null);        // allows multiple null values

        System.out.println("HashMap: " + hashMap);

        // HashSet Example
        HashSet<String> hashSet = new HashSet<>();
        hashSet.add("Apple");
        hashSet.add("Banana");
        hashSet.add(null);    // allows single null value
        hashSet.add("Apple"); // Ignored

        System.out.println("HashSet: " + hashSet);
    }
}

Some of the important points about HashSet in java are

HashSet doesn’t guarantee the insertion order of elements.

HashSet is not thread-safe. You can get thread-safe HashSet using Collections.synchronized Set method at the cost of performance.
You can also use CopyOnWriteArraySet concurrency class for thread safety.

HashSet iterator methods are fail-fast. So any structural modification to the set after creation of iterator will throw ConcurrentModificationException.

HashSet supports Generics, this is the recommended approach to avoid ClassCastException at runtime.

HashSet uses HashMap for storing elements, so the objects should provide good implementation
of hashCode() and equals() method to avoid unwanted results.

3) What is the difference b/w wait(-), sleep(-)?

Both wait() and sleep() are used for pausing the execution of a thread in Java, but they have different purposes and behaviors

Wait(-)

Sleep(-)

1)wait() is the method of Object class and is used for synchronization and inter-thread communication and releasing the lock and waiting for notification from another thread.

2)wait() method must be called from synchronized context (i.e. synchronized method or block), otherwise it will throw IllegalMonitorStateException

synchronized (lockObject) {

while (!conditionIsMet()) {

try {

lockObject.wait(); // Thread waits until notified

} catch (InterruptedException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

3)wait() method releases the lock.

4)wait() is the non-static method -
public final void wait() throws InterruptedException { //...}

5)wait() should be notified by notify() or notifyAll() methods.

6)wait() method needs to be called from a loop in order to deal with false alarm.

1)Where as sleep() is a static method of the Thread class and is used for introducing a delay or pause in the execution of the current thread. It does not release the lock and is not related to inter-thread communication.
2)Where as sleep() can be called from any context, not necessarily within a synchronized context

try {

Thread.sleep(5000); // Sleep for 5 sec

} catch (InterruptedException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

3)Where as sleep() method doesn't release the lock.

4)Where as sleep() is the static method -

public static void sleep(long millis, int nanos) throws InterruptedException { //... }
5)Where as sleep(), after the specified amount of time, sleep() is completed.

6)sleep() better not to call from loop

Code Example for `wait()`

Scenario: A thread waits for a signal from another thread.

class WaitExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

final Object lock = new Object();

Thread t1 = new Thread(() -> {

synchronized (lock) {

try {

System.out.println("Thread 1: Waiting...");

lock.wait(); // Releases the lock and waits

System.out.println("Thread 1: Resumed!");

} catch (InterruptedException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

});

Thread t2 = new Thread(() -> {

synchronized (lock) {

System.out.println("Thread 2: Notifying...");

lock.notify(); // Wakes up thread 1

}

});

t1.start();

try { Thread.sleep(1000); }

catch (InterruptedException e) {} // Ensuring t1 starts first

t2.start();

}

Output:

Thread 1: Waiting...

Thread 2: Notifying...

Thread 1: Resumed!

Code Example for `sleep()`

Scenario: A thread sleeps for a specific time.

class SleepExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Thread t1 = new Thread(() -> {

try {

System.out.println("Thread sleeping...");

Thread.sleep(3000); // Sleeps for 3 seconds

System.out.println("Thread woke up!");

} catch (InterruptedException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

});

t1.start();

}

When to Use What?

Use Case	Use `wait()`	Use `sleep()`
Inter-thread communication (waiting for signals)	✅ Yes	❌ No
Pausing execution for a fixed time	❌ No	✅ Yes
Thread releases lock while waiting	✅ Yes	❌ No
Can be called inside `synchronized` block	✅ Yes	✅ Yes (but not required)

4) Can we create a user defined immutable class? What is immutable class? How can we create immutable custom class? Why you want to create immutable custom class?

Yes, we can create a user-defined immutable class in Java.

What is an Immutable Class?

An immutable class is a class whose state cannot be changed after it is created. This ensures thread safety, consistency, and reliability.

🔹 Guidelines to Create an Immutable Class in Java

To create an immutable class, follow these rules:

Declare the class as final
→ Prevents subclasses from modifying behavior.

Declare all fields as private final
→ Prevents direct modification after initialization.

Do not provide setter methods
→ Ensures that fields cannot be modified.

Initialize fields only through the constructor
→ Provides controlled initialization.

Ensure defensive copying of mutable objects
→ Prevents external modification of internal mutable objects.

Example:

public final class Immutable {

private final int value;

public Immutable(int value) {

this.value = value;

}

// Factory method to return an instance

public Immutable instance(int value) {

if (this.value == value) {

return this; // Return the same instance if the value is unchanged

} else {

return new Immutable(value); // Create a new instance if the value is different

}

// Getter method to access value (without modifying it)

public int getValue() {

return value;

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

Immutable im1 = new Immutable(10);

Immutable im2 = im1.instance(10);

Immutable im3 = im1.instance(100);

System.out.println(im1); // Immutable@de6ced

System.out.println(im2); // Immutable@de6ced

System.out.println(im3); // Immutable@c17164

System.out.println(im1 == im2); // true (same instance reused)

System.out.println(im1 == im3); // false (new instance created)

}

Why Create Immutable Classes?

Benefit	Description
Thread Safety	Immutable objects are inherently thread-safe because they cannot be modified after creation. No synchronization needed.
Caching & Performance	Since immutable objects do not change, they can be cached and reused efficiently.
Safe Hashing	Immutable objects have a constant hash code, making them perfect for keys in HashMaps.
Predictability	No risk of unexpected changes, making the code easier to understand and debug.
Prevention of Inconsistencies	Ensures that the state of an object is consistent and cannot be changed by external factors.

Real-world Examples of Immutable Classes

1.String Class

Every modification (e.g., s.toUpperCase()) creates a new String object.

Prevents unexpected mutations.

2.Wrapper Classes (Integer, Double, Boolean)

These classes are immutable to avoid modifications in shared memory.

3.java.time.LocalDate, LocalTime, LocalDateTime (Java 8+)

Designed to be immutable for safe date/time manipulation.

5) What are the differences b/w String and StringBuffer and StringBuilder?

String, StringBuffer, and StringBuilder are three classes used to represent and manipulate strings. Each of these classes has its own characteristics, and the main differences lie in their mutability, performance, and thread safety.

String → Immutable, thread-safe, but slow for modifications.

StringBuffer → Mutable, thread-safe (synchronized), slightly slower.

StringBuilder → Mutable, not thread-safe, but fastest.

Differences Between `String`, `StringBuffer`, and `StringBuilder`

Feature	`String` (Immutable& Thread-Safe)	`StringBuffer` (Mutable & Thread-Safe)	`StringBuilder` (Mutable & Non-Thread-Safe)
Mutability	❌ Immutable (New object is created for modifications)	✅ Mutable (Modifies existing object)	✅ Mutable (Modifies existing object)
Thread-Safety	✅ Thread-Safe (due to immutability)	✅ Thread-Safe (synchronized methods)	❌ Not Thread-Safe
Performance	🚫 Slow for frequent modifications (new objects are created)	🟡 Slower due to synchronization overhead	🟢 Fastest (No synchronization overhead)
Concatenation	Uses `+` operator or `concat()` (creates a new object)	Uses `append()`, modifies the same object	Uses `append()`, modifies the same object
Usage in Multi-threading	✅ Safe (immutable)	✅ Safe (synchronized)	❌ Not Safe (should be used in a single-threaded environment)
Memory Efficiency	❌ Inefficient for frequent changes	🟡 Better (but synchronization adds some overhead)	🟢 Best (efficient for single-threaded performance)
Best Used For	Small, unchanging text (e.g., configuration values, keys)	Multi-threaded applications needing string modifications	Performance-critical applications requiring frequent modifications

String Example (Immutable)

public class StringExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

String str = "Hello";

str = str + " World"; // Creates a new string (old one is discarded)

System.out.println(str); // Output: Hello World

}

Why is String immutable?
Every time we modify a String, a new object is created in memory instead of modifying the existing one.

StringBuffer Example (Thread-Safe)

public class StringBufferExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("Hello");

sb.append(" World"); // Modifies the same object

System.out.println(sb); // Output: Hello World

}

Why use StringBuffer?

Safe for multi-threading because its methods (e.g., append(), insert()) are synchronized.

StringBuilder Example (Fastest, Non-Thread-Safe)

public class StringBuilderExample {

public static void main(String[] args) {

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("Hello");

sb.append(" World"); // Modifies the same object

System.out.println(sb); // Output: Hello World

}

Why use StringBuilder?

Faster than StringBuffer in a single-threaded environment because no synchronization is required.

When to Use What?

Use Case	Recommended Choice
Fixed Strings (unchanging values)	✅ `String` (Immutable, thread-safe)
Multi-threaded applications	✅ `StringBuffer` (Thread-safe)
High-performance, single-threaded operations	✅ `StringBuilder` (Fastest)

6) What is Collection Framework and which “Collections F/W” classes did you use in your project?

A Collection is a group of individual objects represented as a single unit. Java provides the Collection Framework (JCF), a set of interfaces and classes to store and manipulate data efficiently.

The Collection interface (java.util.Collection) and Map interface (java.util.Map) are the

two main “root” interfaces of Java collection classes.

Collection : Root interface with basic methods like size(), add(), remove(),

contains(), isEmpty(), addAll(), ... etc.

Collection Framework Overview

1️⃣ Core Interfaces in Java Collections

Interface	Description	Key Implementations
Collection	Root interface (methods like `add()`, `remove()`, `size()`, etc.)	`List`, `Set`, `Queue`
List	Ordered collection, allows duplicates	`ArrayList`, `LinkedList`, `Vector`
Set	Unordered collection, no duplicates	`HashSet`, `TreeSet`
Queue	FIFO (except `PriorityQueue`)	`PriorityQueue`, `ArrayDeque`
Deque	Insert/remove from both ends	`ArrayDeque`, `LinkedList`
Map	Key-Value pairs	`HashMap`, `TreeMap`, `Hashtable`

🔹 When to Use List, Set, Queue, or Map?

Collection Type	Use Case	When to Use?
List	Ordered collection, allows duplicates	When order matters (e.g., log entries, user transactions)
Set	Unordered, unique elements	When duplicates must be avoided (e.g., unique user roles, tags)
Queue	FIFO order	When elements must be processed in sequence (e.g., task scheduling, messaging queues)
Map	Key-Value pairs	When you need fast lookup and mapping (e.g., userId → User object)

🔹 List, Set, Queue, and Map – Practical Use Cases

1️⃣ List (Ordered, Allows Duplicates)

✅ Best For: Ordered data, when duplicates are allowed.
Common Use Cases: Storing ordered user data, processing query results.

Example: Fetching users from a database

List<User> users = new ArrayList<>();

while (resultSet.next()) {

users.add(new User(resultSet.getInt("id"), resultSet.getString("name")));

}

2️⃣.Set (Unique, Unordered)

✅ Best For: When duplicates must be avoided.
Common Use Cases: Storing unique roles, unique IDs, cache keys.

Example: Ensuring unique user roles

Set<String> roles = new HashSet<>();

roles.add("ADMIN");

roles.add("USER");

roles.add("ADMIN"); // Duplicate ignored

System.out.println(roles); // Output: [ADMIN, USER]

3️⃣.Queue (FIFO - First In, First Out)

✅ Best For: Task scheduling, messaging queues
Common Use Cases: Processing tasks in sequence, background jobs.

Example: Processing tasks in order

Queue<String> taskQueue = new LinkedList<>();

taskQueue.offer("Task1");

taskQueue.offer("Task2");

System.out.println(taskQueue.poll()); // Output: Task1

4️⃣.Map (Key-Value Pairs)

✅ Best For: Fast lookup using a key
Common Use Cases: Storing configurations, caching, user session tracking.

Example: Caching API responses

Map<String, String> cache = new HashMap<>();

cache.put("user_1", "Swamy");

System.out.println(cache.get("user_1")); // Output: Swamy

Collections API Algorithms (Sorting, Searching, Shuffling)

1️⃣ Sorting

Sorts a List in ascending order.


List<Integer> numbers = Arrays.asList(5, 2, 9, 1);
Collections.sort(numbers);
System.out.println(numbers); // Output: [1, 2, 5, 9]

✅ When to Use?

When you need ordered data (e.g., displaying leaderboard scores).

2️⃣ Searching (Binary Search)

Efficiently searches in a sorted list.


int index = Collections.binarySearch(numbers, 5);
System.out.println("Found at index: " + index);

✅ When to Use?

When you need fast lookups in sorted data.

3️⃣ Shuffling

Randomizes the order of elements.


Collections.shuffle(numbers);
System.out.println(numbers); // Output: Randomized order

✅ When to Use?

Useful in game development, test case randomization.

🔹 Collection Classes Used in My Spring Boot Project

Collection Type	Usage in Project
`ArrayList`	Storing and transferring database query results (e.g., `ResultSet` to DTO)
`LinkedList`	Processing queue-based tasks (job queues)
`HashSet`	Storing unique user roles, preventing duplicates
`TreeSet`	Sorting unique elements (audit logs, reports)
`HashMap`	Caching configurations, storing API response data
`TreeMap`	Maintaining sorted logs and audit trail
`ConcurrentHashMap`	Handling thread-safe caching in microservices
`Properties`	Reading database/mail configurations

🔹 Practical Real-World Applications in Spring Boot

1️⃣ Using `List` for Database Handling


List<User> users = new ArrayList<>();
while (resultSet.next()) {
    users.add(new User(resultSet.getInt("id"), resultSet.getString("name")));
}

✅ Why List?

Maintains insertion order.

Allows duplicates (multiple users with the same name).

2️⃣ Using `Set` for Unique Data (User Roles)


Set<String> roles = new HashSet<>();
roles.add("ADMIN");
roles.add("USER");
roles.add("ADMIN"); // Duplicate ignored

✅ Why Set?

Ensures uniqueness.

Faster lookup than List.

3️⃣ Using `Queue` for Task Scheduling


Queue<String> taskQueue = new LinkedList<>();
taskQueue.offer("Task1");
taskQueue.offer("Task2");
System.out.println(taskQueue.poll()); // Output: Task1

✅ Why Queue?

Tasks are processed in order (FIFO).

4️⃣ Using `Map` for Fast Lookups (User Cache)


Map<String, String> cache = new HashMap<>();
cache.put("user_1", "Swamy");
System.out.println(cache.get("user_1")); // Output: Swamy

✅ Why Map?

Fast retrieval using keys.

5️⃣ Using `ConcurrentHashMap` for Thread-Safe Caching


Map<String, String> concurrentMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
concurrentMap.put("key1", "value1");

✅ Why ConcurrentHashMap?

Safe for multi-threaded environments.

🔹 Summary

Collection Type	Key Features	Best Use Case
List	Ordered, allows duplicates	Ordered data, logs, transactions
Set	Unordered, unique elements	Unique values (tags, user roles)
Queue	FIFO order	Task scheduling, messaging queues
Map	Key-Value storage	Configurations, caching, session tracking
Thread-Safe Collections	Safe for multi-threading	Real-time processing, caching in microservices

🚀 Final Thoughts

✅ Use List when order matters and duplicates are allowed.
✅ Use Set when duplicates must be avoided.
✅ Use Queue for FIFO processing.
✅ Use Map for fast key-value lookups.
✅ Use ConcurrentHashMap for multi-threaded environments.

7) Can you write the simple code for HashMap?

import java.util.HashMap;

import java.util.Iterator;

import java.util.Map;

import java.util.Set;

class Hashkeyvalue {

public static void main(String[] args) {

HashMap h = new HashMap();

h.put(10, "swamy");

h.put(20, "narayan");

h.put(30, "raj");

System.out.println(h);

Set s = h.entrySet();

Iterator it = s.iterator();

while (it.hasNext()) {

Map.Entry m1 = (Map.Entry) it.next();

System.out.println(m1.getKey() + "....." + m1.getValue());

// Using Java 8 Streams to iterate and print key-value pairs

map.entrySet().stream()

.forEach(entry -> System.out.println(entry.getKey() + "....." + entry.getValue()));

}

// Print only keys

System.out.println("Keys:");

map.keySet().stream()

.forEach(key -> System.out.println(key));

// Print only values

System.out.println("Values:");

map.values().stream()

.forEach(value -> System.out.println(value));

}

8) What are thread states?

Thread Life Cycle in Java

Below diagram shows different states of thread life cycle in java. We can create a thread in java and start it but how the thread states change from Runnable to Running to Blocked depends on the OS implementation of thread scheduler and java doesn’t have full control on that.

New

When we create a new Thread object using new operator, thread state is New Thread. At this point, thread is not alive and it’s a state internal to Java programming.

Runnable

When we call start() function on Thread object, it’s state is changed to Runnable. The control is given to Thread scheduler to finish it’s execution. Whether to run this thread instantly or keep it in runnable thread pool before running, depends on the OS implementation of thread scheduler.

Running

When thread is executing, it’s state is changed to Running. Thread scheduler picks one of the thread from the runnable thread pool and change it’s state to Running. Then CPU starts executing this thread. A thread can change state to Runnable, Dead or Blocked from running state depends on time slicing, thread completion of run() method or waiting for some resources.

Blocked/Waiting

A thread can be waiting for other thread to finish using thread join or it can be waiting for some resources to available. For example producer consumer problem or waiter notifier implementation or IO resources, then it’s state is changed to Waiting. Once the thread wait state is over, it’s state is changed to Runnable and it’s moved back to runnable thread pool.

Dead

Once the thread finished executing, it’s state is changed to Dead and it’s considered to be not alive.

9) What are differences b/w concrete, abstract classes and interface & they are given?

Concrete class: A class of only Concrete methods is called Concrete Class.

For this, object instantiation is possible directly.

A class can extends one class and implements many interfaces.

Abstract class:

Interface:

1) Abstract class contains only Concrete methods or Abstract methods or both.

2)Any java class can extend only one abstract class.

3) Abstract class won’t force the programmer to implement/override
all its methods.

4) Abstract class takes less execution timethan interface.

5) Abstract class allows constructor.

6) Abstract class can’t be instantiated directly.

7) A class must be abstract when it consist at least one abstract method.
8) Abstract class gives less scope than an Interface.

9) Abstract class allows both variable & constants declaration.

10) Abstract class allows method definitions or declarations whenever we want.

Where as interface methods are implicitly abstract unless the interface methods are static or default. Static methods and default methods in interfaces are added in Java 8.

A class can implements any no. of interfaces

(this gives multiple interface inheritance )

Interface forces the programmer to implement all its methods

Interface takes more execution time due to its complex hierarchy.

Interface won’t allow any constructor.

Interface can’t be instantiated but it can refer to its subclass objects.

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Interface gives more scope than an abstract class.

variables are public static final.

Interface allows method declarations whenever we want . But it involves complexity.

Some interview questions

How to reverse a String in Java?

How to swap two numbers without using a third variable?

Seperate vowels and consonants from given string

Java program to check if the given number is Prime

Check given string is palindrome or not

Print number of largest polindrome in a string

Fibonacci Series

How to remove Whitespaces from String

Sorting an array

Find factorial of an integer?

Find common elements from 2 arrays

How to get distinct characters and their count in a String?

Java8 filter, groupby,

Java map() and to toMap() Programs

Java 8 convert list into map

Functional interface

Lamda expressions

Method references

Internal working of Hash Map, Hashset, concurrent hashmap.

Difference b/w hashmap and concurrent hashmap

Difference Synchronized map and concurrent hashmap

12) What are versions of your current project technologies?

Java 7.0; Servlets 3.0, Jsp 3.0; spring 3.2.5; RestFul, Mongo DB 3.7, Tomcat 8,

Java 6.0; Servlets 2.4, Jsp 2.0; spring 2.5; Hibernate 3.2, Oracle 10g. weblogic 10.0.

13) What is “Quality”?

It is a Measure of excellence, state of being free from defects, deficiencies, and significant variations.

A product or service that bears its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs."

14) Can I take a class as “private”?

Yes, but it is declare to inner class, not to outer class.

If we are declaring "private" to outer class then we get compile time error as

modifier private not allowed here.

private class Sample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hi");
}

}

Output:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem:

15) How can you clone an object?

A a1=new A();

B a11=a1.clone();

Java Object class comes with native clone()method that returns the exact copy of the existing instance.

Shallow Cloning

Default implementation of java clone object is using shallow copy.

// Java program to demonstrate that assignment

// operator only creates a new reference to same object.

// A test class whose objects are cloned

class ShallowCloningTest {

int x, y;

ShallowCloningTest() {

x = 10;

y = 20;

}

// Driver Class

class ShallowCloningMain {

public static void main(String[] args) {

ShallowCloningTest ob1 = new ShallowCloningTest();

System.out.println(ob1.x + " " + ob1.y);

// Creating a new reference variable ob2

// pointing to same address as ob1

ShallowCloningTest ob2 = ob1;

// Any change made in ob2 will be reflected in ob1

ob2.x = 100;

System.out.println(ob1.x + " " + ob1.y);

System.out.println(ob2.x + " " + ob2.y);

}

Output:

10 20

100 20

Deep Cloning

In deep cloning, we have to copy fields one by one. We can override the clone method like below for deep cloning.

A deep copy copies all fields, and makes copies of dynamically allocated memory pointed to by the fields. A deep copy occurs when an object is copied along with the objects to which it refers.

// A Java program to demonstrate deep copy using clone()

// An object reference of this class is contained by Test2

class DeepCloningTest {

int x, y;

}

// Contains a reference of Test and implements clone with deep copy.

class DeepCloningTest2 implements Cloneable {

int a, b;

DeepCloningTest c = new DeepCloningTest();

public Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {

// Assign the shallow copy to new refernce variable t

DeepCloningTest2 t = (DeepCloningTest2) super.clone();

t.c = new DeepCloningTest();

// Create a new object for the field c

// and assign it to shallow copy obtained, to make it a deep copy

return t;

}

public class DeepCloningMain {

public static void main(String args[]) throws CloneNotSupportedException {

DeepCloningTest2 t1 = new DeepCloningTest2();

t1.a = 10;

t1.b = 20;

t1.c.x = 30;

t1.c.y = 40;

DeepCloningTest2 t3 = (DeepCloningTest2) t1.clone();

t3.a = 100;

// Change in primitive type of t2 will not be reflected in t1 field

t3.c.x = 300;

// Change in object type field of t2 will not be reflected in t1(deep

// copy)

System.out.println(t1.a + " " + t1.b + " " + t1.c.x + " " + t1.c.y);

System.out.println(t3.a + " " + t3.b + " " + t3.c.x + " " + t3.c.y);

}

Output:

10 20 30 40

100 20 300 0

Cloning using Serialization

One way to easily perform deep cloning is through serialization. But serialization is an
expensive procedure and your class should implement Serializable interface.

Cloning in java using Apache Commons Util
If you are already using Apache Commons Util classes in your project and your class is serializable, then use below method.

Employee clonedEmp = org.apache.commons.lang3.SerializationUtils.clone(emp);

Copy Constructor for Cloning

We can also define copy constructor and get a copy of object and don’t depend on the cloning at all. For example, we can have Employee constructor like below.

public Employee(Employee emp) {

this.setId(emp.getId());

this.setName(emp.getName());

Map<String, String> hm = new HashMap<>();

String key;

Iterator<String> it = emp.getProps().keySet().iterator();

// Deep Copy of field by field

while (it.hasNext()) {

key = it.next();

hm.put(key, emp.getProps().get(key));

}

this.setProps(hm);

}

16) What is marker interface?

Interfaces with no methods are known as marker interfaces.

Marker interfaces are Serializable, Clonable, SingleThreadModel, Event listener.

Marker Interfaces are implemented by the classes or their super classes in order to add some functionality.

e.g. Suppose you want to persist (save) the state of an object then you have to implement the Serializable interface otherwise the compiler will throw an error.

Suppose the interface Clonable is neither implemented by a class named Myclass nor it's any super class, then a call to the method clone() on Myclass's object will give an error. This means, to add this functionality one should implement the Clonable interface. While the Clonable is an empty interface but it provides an important functionality.

When a class implements this interface that class obtains some special behavior and that

will be realized by the JVM.

Even though an interface contains some methods by implementing that interface if our objects will

get some ability. Such type of interfaces are called ‘marker’ or ‘taginterfaces’

Ex:

Comparable, Runnable.

17) What Design Patterns are you using in your project?

i) MVC ---> separates roles using different technologies,

ii) Singleton Java class --> To satisfy the Servlet Specification, a servlet must be a Single

Instance multiple thread component.

iii) D.T.O/ V.O---> Data Transfer Object/Value object is there to send huge amount of data

from one lalyer to another layer. It avoids Network Round trips.

iv) IOC/Dependency Injection---> Framework or container can automatically instantiates the

objects implicitly and injects the dependent data to that object.

v) Factory method---> By using class name if we call any method and return same class object.Then that method is consider as factory method.

While developing projects one application contains so many sub classes.Then we go for factory method. It won’t allows object instantiation from out-side of the class.

vi) View Helper----> It is there to develop a JSP without Java code so that readability,

re-usability will become easy.

vii) Front Controller---> dispatcher servlet developed as FrontController can traps only the requests.

We are used various design patterns to improve modularity, maintainability, and scalability. Here are some of the key design patterns are used in my current project:

1. Creational Design Patterns

(a) Singleton Pattern

Used in: Spring Beans

How it works: Spring manages beans as singletons by default, ensuring that only one instance of a bean exists within the Spring container.

@Service

public class UserService {

// Spring automatically ensures a single instance of this bean

}

(b) Factory Pattern

Used in: BeanFactory, ApplicationContext, FactoryBean

How it works: Provides an interface to create objects without exposing the instantiation logic.

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {
    @Bean
    public RestTemplate restTemplate() {
        return new RestTemplate();
    }
}

(c) Builder Pattern
Used in: Object construction for complex objects (e.g., DTOs, Entities)

public class User {
    private String name;
    private String email;

    public static class Builder {
        private String name;
        private String email;

        public Builder name(String name) {
            this.name = name;
            return this;
        }

        public Builder email(String email) {
            this.email = email;
            return this;
        }

        public User build() {
            return new User(this);
        }
    }

    private User(Builder builder) {
        this.name = builder.name;
        this.email = builder.email;
    }
}

2. Structural Design Patterns
(a) Proxy Pattern
Used in: Spring AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming), Transaction Management
How it works: Spring creates proxy objects to implement cross-cutting concerns (e.g., logging, security, transactions).

@Transactional
public void updateUser(User user) {
    // Spring creates a proxy to handle transactions
}
@Component
public class ExternalServiceAdapter {
    private final RestTemplate restTemplate;

    public ExternalServiceAdapter(RestTemplate restTemplate) {
        this.restTemplate = restTemplate;
    }

    public ExternalResponse getExternalData(String url) {
        return restTemplate.getForObject(url, ExternalResponse.class);
    }
}

(b) Adapter Pattern
Used in: Integrating third-party services (e.g., API clients, database adapters)

@Component
public class ExternalServiceAdapter {
    private final RestTemplate restTemplate;

    public ExternalServiceAdapter(RestTemplate restTemplate) {
        this.restTemplate = restTemplate;
    }

    public ExternalResponse getExternalData(String url) {
        return restTemplate.getForObject(url, ExternalResponse.class);
    }
}

(c) Decorator Pattern
Used in: Custom Logging, Caching (e.g., Redis), Security Enhancements
@Service
public class LoggingUserServiceDecorator implements UserService {
    private final UserService userService;

    public LoggingUserServiceDecorator(UserService userService) {
        this.userService = userService;
    }

    @Override
    public User getUserById(Long id) {
        System.out.println("Fetching user with ID: " + id);
        return userService.getUserById(id);
    }
}

3. Behavioral Design Patterns
(a) Strategy Pattern
Used in: Defining multiple implementations of a feature (e.g., payment gateways, authentication methods)

public interface PaymentStrategy {
    void pay(double amount);
}

@Component
public class CreditCardPayment implements PaymentStrategy {
    @Override
    public void pay(double amount) {
        System.out.println("Paid " + amount + " using Credit Card");
    }
}

@Component
public class PaypalPayment implements PaymentStrategy {
    @Override
    public void pay(double amount) {
        System.out.println("Paid " + amount + " using PayPal");
    }
}

(b) Observer Pattern

Used in: Event-driven programming using ApplicationEventPublisher

@Component
public class UserRegistrationEventPublisher {
    @Autowired
    private ApplicationEventPublisher eventPublisher;

    public void publishUserRegisteredEvent(User user) {
        eventPublisher.publishEvent(new UserRegisteredEvent(this, user));
    }
}

@Component
public class UserRegistrationListener {
    @EventListener
    public void handleUserRegistration(UserRegisteredEvent event) {
        System.out.println("User Registered: " + event.getUser().getName());
    }
}
(c) Template Method Pattern
Used in: Defining a workflow skeleton with steps that subclasses must implement
public abstract class ReportGenerator {
    public void generateReport() {
        fetchData();
        processData();
        formatReport();
    }

    protected abstract void fetchData();
    protected abstract void processData();
    protected abstract void formatReport();
}

public class PdfReportGenerator extends ReportGenerator {
    @Override
    protected void fetchData() { /* fetch data logic */ }

    @Override
    protected void processData() { /* process data logic */ }

    @Override
    protected void formatReport() { /* format report as PDF */ }
}

18) What is Singleton Java class & its importance?

A Java class that allows to create only one object per JVM is called Singleton Java class.

Ex: DriverManager class is a Singleton Java class.

Use: Instead of creating multiple objects for a Java class having same data, it is recommended

to create only one object & use it for multiple no. of times.

Singleton Pattern is a design pattern that is used to restrict instantiation of a class to one object.

Using private constructor and factory method, we can create singleton class.

class Ourownsingleton {

private static Ourownsingleton t;

private Ourownsingleton() {

}

public static Ourownsingleton getInstance() {

if (t == null) {

t = new Ourownsingleton();

}

return t;

}

public Object clone() {

return this;

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

Ourownsingleton t1 = Ourownsingleton.getInstance();

Ourownsingleton t2 = Ourownsingleton.getInstance();

System.out.println(t1);

System.out.println(t2);

}

19) What are the differences b/w struts, spring and hibernate?

Struts: allows to develop only webapplications and

it can’t support POJO/POJI model programming.

Spring: is useful in developing all types of Java applications and

support POJO/POJI model programming.

Hibernate: is used to develop database independent persistence logic

It also supports POJO/POJI model programming.

20) What are Access Specifiers & modifiers?

In java there is no access specifiers, and all are access modifiers. These are

i) public---> Universal access specifier.

--can be used along with: class, inner class, Interface, variable, constructor, method.

ii) protected --> Inherited access modifier.

--can be used along with: inner class, variable, method, constructor.

iii) default --> Package access modifier(with in the package).

--can be used along with: class, inner class, interface, variable, constructor, method.

iv) private --> Native access modifier.

-- can be used along with: inner class, variable, constructor, method.

Some other access modifiers:

i) static------------inner class,variable,block,method.

ii) abstract—----- class,method.

iii) final--------------class,variable,method.

iv) synchronized---block,method.
v) native-------------method.

vi) transient---------variable.

vii) volatile-----------variable

viii) strict fp-----------variable

21) If double is added to String then what is the result?

Double + String=String

22) differences b/w a Vector & a ArrayList?

1)Synchronization : Vector is synchronized, which means only one thread at a time can access the code, while arrayList is not synchronized, which means multiple threads can work on arrayList at the same time. For example, if one thread is performing an add operation, then there can be another thread performing a remove operation in a multithreading environment.
If multiple threads access arrayList concurrently, then we must synchronize the block of the code which modifies the list structurally, or alternatively allow simple element modifications. Structural modification means addition or deletion of element(s) from the list. Setting the value of an existing element is not a structural modification.

2)Performance: ArrayList is faster, since it is non-synchronized, while vector operations give slower performance since they are synchronized (thread-safe). If one thread works on a vector, it has acquired a lock on it, which forces any other thread wanting to work on it to have to wait until the lock is released.

3)Data Growth: ArrayList and Vector both grow and shrink dynamically to maintain optimal use of storage – but the way they resize is different. ArrayList increments 50% of the current array size if the number of elements exceeds its capacity, while vector increments 100% – essentially doubling the current array size.

4)Traversal: Vector can use both Enumeration and Iterator for traversing over elements of vector while ArrayList can only use Iterator for traversing.

23) How can you achieve Concurrence in Java?

Using Multithreading.

The backbone of java concurrency is threads. A thread is a lightweight process which has its own call stack, but can access shared data of other threads in the same process. A Java application runs by default in one process. Within a Java application you can work with many threads to achieve parallel processing or concurrency.

24) How to implement Synchronization? Can we use synchronized with variables?

‘Synchronized’ is the keyword applicable for the methods and blocks. We can’t apply this keyword for variables and classes.

The process of allowing only one thread among n no. of threads into a Sharable Resource

to perform “Read” & “Write” operations.

If a method declared as synchronized at a time only one thread is allowed to execute that method on the given object. The main advantage of synchronized keyword is we can overcome data

inconsistency problem. The main limitation of synchronized keyword is it may create preference problems.

Hence if there is no specific requirement it’s not recommended to use synchronized keyword.

Every object in java has a unique lock. Whenever we are using synchronized keyword then object level lock concept will come into picture. If a thread want to execute any synchronized method on the object first it should require the lock of that object. Once a thread got the lock then it is allowed to execute any synchronized method on that object.

While a thread executing a synchronized method on the object, then the remaining threads are not allowed to execute any synchronized method on the same object. But the remaining threads are allowed to execute any non-synchronized method on the same object.

Every object in java has unique lock but a thread can acquire more than one lock at a time.

Ex:

class Display

{

public synchronized void wish(String name)

{

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)

{

System.out.print("Hai.......!");

try

{

Thread.sleep(2000);

}

catch (InterruptedException e)

{

}

System.out.println(name);

}

class MyThread extends Thread

{

Display d;

String name;

MyThread(Display d, String name)

{

this.d = d;

this.name = name;

}

public void run()

{

d.wish(name);

}

class SynchronizedDemo

{

public static void main(String arg[])

{

Display d = new Display();

MyThread t1 = new MyThread(d, "YS");

MyThread t2 = new MyThread(d, "Babu");

t1.start();

t2.start();

}

25) What are oop principles?

Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism.

Inheritance Example:

class A {

int i = 10;

protected void m1() {

System.out.println("parent1 class");

}

protected void m2() {

System.out.println("parent2 class");

}

class B extends A {

int i = 100;

public void m1() {

System.out.println("inter class");

}

class C extends A {

int i = 1000;

public void m1() {

System.out.println("child class");

}

public class inheriex1 {

public static void main(String[] args) {

A a = new A();

a.m1();

B b = new B();

b.m1();

b.m2();

A a1 = new B();

a1.m1();

a1.m2();

A a2 = new C();

a2.m1();

a2.m2();

}

Output:

parent1 class

inter class

parent2 class

inter class

parent2 class

child class

parent2 class

26) What is polymorphism?

Polymorphism is the capability of an action or method to do different things based on the object that it is acting upon. In other words, polymorphism allows you define one interface and have multiple implementation. This is one of the basic principles of object oriented programming.

The method overriding is an example of runtime polymorphism. You can have a method in superclass overrides the method in its sub classes with the same name and signature. Java virtual machine determines the proper method to call at the runtime, not at the compile time.

Let's take a look at the following example:

class Animal {

void whoAmI() {

System.out.println("I am a generic Animal.");

}

class Dog extends Animal {

void whoAmI() {

System.out.println("I am a Dog.");

}

class Cow extends Animal {

void whoAmI() {

System.out.println("I am a Cow.");

}

class RuntimePolymorphismDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Animal ref1 = new Animal();

Animal ref2 = new Dog();

Animal ref3 = new Cow();

ref1.whoAmI();

ref2.whoAmI();

ref3.whoAmI();

}

The output is

I am a generic Animal.

I am a Dog.

I am a Cow.

Method overloading and method overriding uses concept of Polymorphism in Java where method name remains same in two classes but actual method called by JVM depends upon object at run time and done by dynamic binding in Java.

Method overriding nothing but runtime polymorphism.And Method overloading is nothing but compiletime polymorphism in java.

27) What is overloading and overriding? Give one example?

Overloading is the process of re-defining a method for multiple times

with different Signature.

Example:

class Overloadex2 {

public String m1(String s) {

System.out.println("string method1");

return "null";

}

public int m1(int s1) {

System.out.println("int method1");

return -1;

}

public Object m1(Object s2) {

System.out.println("object method1");

return "";

}

public Object m1() {

System.out.println("object method2");

return -1;

}

public class Overloadex1 {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Overloadex2 overloadex2 = new Overloadex2();

overloadex2.m1("ab");

overloadex2.m1(null);

overloadex2.m1();

overloadex2.m1(-2);

overloadex2.m1(0);

}

Output: string method1

string method1

object method2

int method1

Overriding is a process of re-defining a super class original version

in its various derived classes through inheritance.

Example:

//overridding concept

class overex3 {

public Object m1() {

System.out.println("hi overex3 object");

return 1;

}

public String m1(Float f) {

System.out.println("hi overex3 float");

return "hi return m1";

}

public String m1(String s1) {

System.out.println("hi overex3 string");

return "java return m1";

}

public class Overrideex3 extends overex3 {

public Object m1() {

System.out.println("hello Overrideex3 object");

return 1;

}

public String m1(String s1) {

System.out.println("hello Overrideex3 string");

return "java return m1";

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

// System.out.println("hi!..........");

overex3 o = new overex3();

o.m1("java");

o.m1();

}

Output:

hi overex3 string

hi overex3 object

28) What is encapsulation & abstraction?

Encapsulation is, a technique, used to encapsulate the properties & behaviors of an object.

It focuses on inside-view and solves problems at “implementation side”.

Abstract class in Java Important Points

1) abstract keyword is used to create an abstract class in java.

2) Abstract class in java can’t be instantiated.

3) We can use abstract keyword to create an abstract method, an abstract method doesn’t have body.

4) If a class have abstract methods, then the class should also be abstract using abstract keyword, else it will not compile.

5) It’s not necessary to have abstract class to have abstract method. We can mark a class as abstract even if it doesn’t declare any abstract methods.

6) If abstract class doesn’t have any method implementation, its better to use interface because java doesn’t support multiple class inheritance.

7) The subclass of abstract class in java must implement all the abstract methods unless the subclass is also an abstract class.

8) All the methods in an interface are implicitly abstract unless the interface methods are static or default. Static methods and default methods in interfaces are added in Java 8, for more details read Java 8 interface changes.

9) Java Abstract class can implement interfaces without even providing the implementation of interface methods.

10) Java Abstract class is used to provide common method implementation to all the subclasses or to provide default implementation.

11) We can run abstract class in java like any other class if it has main() method.

29) While overriding a exception throwing method, does it mandatory that subclass must

also throw the same exception? No

30) In an application, one task has to be done for every 15 minutes. How can you do it?

31) How do you sort on one property(field) of a class?

Using Comparable and Comparator interfaces.

Comparable

A comparable object is capable of comparing itself with another object using comareTo() method. The class itself must implements the java.lang.Comparable interface in order to be able to compare its instances.

Example 1:

class Student implements Comparable<Student> {

int rollno;

String name;

int age;

Student(int rollno, String name, int age) {

this.rollno = rollno;

this.name = name;

this.age = age;

}

@Override

public int compareTo(Student other) {

return Integer.compare(this.age, other.age); // cleaner than if-else

}

@Override

public String toString() {

return rollno + " - " + name + " - " + age;

}

Example 2):

package comparableandcomparator;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class ComparableEmployee implements Comparable<ComparableEmployee> {

private int id;

private String name;

private int age;

private long salary;

public ComparableEmployee(int id, String name, int age, long salary) {

this.id = id;

this.name = name;

this.age = age;

this.salary = salary;

}

// Getters

public int getId() { return id; }

public String getName(){ return name; }

public int getAge() { return age; }

public long getSalary(){ return salary; }

@Override

public String toString() {

return "[id=" + id + ", name=" + name + ", age=" + age + ", salary=" + salary + "]";

}

// Sorting by ID (ascending)

@Override

public int compareTo(ComparableEmployee other) {

return Integer.compare(this.id, other.id);

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

ComparableEmployee[] empArr = {

new ComparableEmployee(10, "Mikey", 25, 10000),

new ComparableEmployee(20, "Arun", 29, 20000),

new ComparableEmployee(5, "Lisa", 35, 5000),

new ComparableEmployee(1, "Pankaj", 32, 50000)

};

// Default sorting using Comparable (by ID)

Arrays.sort(empArr);

System.out.println("Sorted by ID (default):");

Arrays.stream(empArr).forEach(System.out::println);

// Java 8 alternative: sort by name using Comparator

System.out.println("\nSorted by Name:");

Arrays.stream(empArr)

.sorted((e1, e2) -> e1.name.compareTo(e2.name))

.forEach(System.out::println);

}

Comparator

A comparator object is capable of comparing two different objects using equals() and compare(). The class is not comparing its instances, but some other class’s instances. This comparator class must implement the java.util.Comparator interface.

package comparableandcomparator;

import java.util.*;

class Student {

int rollno;

String name, address;

// Constructor

public Student(int rollno, String name, String address) {

this.rollno = rollno;

this.name = name;

this.address = address;

}

@Override

public String toString() {

return rollno + " " + name + " " + address;

}

public class ComparatorStudent {

public static void main(String[] args) {

List<Student> students = new ArrayList<>();

students.add(new Student(111, "bbbb", "london"));

students.add(new Student(131, "aaaa", "nyc"));

students.add(new Student(121, "cccc", "jaipur"));

System.out.println("🔹 Unsorted:");

students.forEach(System.out::println);

// Sort by rollno using Comparator.comparing

students.sort(Comparator.comparingInt(s -> s.rollno));

System.out.println("\n🔹 Sorted by rollno:");

students.forEach(System.out::println);

// Sort by name using Comparator.comparing

students.sort(Comparator.comparing(s -> s.name));

System.out.println("\n🔹 Sorted by name:");

students.forEach(System.out::println);

// Optional: sort by address

students.sort(Comparator.comparing(s -> s.address));

System.out.println("\n🔹 Sorted by address:");

students.forEach(System.out::println);

}

32) If my class is having 5 abstract methods then can I make it as an interface?

Yes

33) Which cvs tool are you using? What are the methods that are there?

Commit().

Update()

34) Difference b/w Checked & Unchecked Exception?

The exceptions which are checked by the compiler for smooth execution of the program at runtime are called “Checked Exceptions”.

Ex: ClassNotFoundException---Java ClassNotFoundException occurs when the application tries to load a class but Classloader is not able to find it in the classpath..

InterruptedException,---when two or more threads try to share same Resource(wait() and join())

NoSuchFieldException ---when we access the undeclared variable

NoSuchMethodException---when we invoke the undeclared method.

InstantiationException---when we try to create object for a abstract/interface

The exceptions which are unble to checked by the compiler are called “Unchecked Exceptions”

Ex: ArithmeticException,

ArrayOutOfBoundsException,

NullPointerException

ExceptionDemo Example:

package exception;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.io.FileReader;

// Java program to demonstrate built-in Exceptions

class Exception_Demo {

public static void main(String args[]) {

Exception_Demo exception_Demo = new Exception_Demo();

exception_Demo.arithmeticException_Demo();

exception_Demo.arrayIndexOutOfBoundsException_Demo();

exception_Demo.nullPointerException_Demo();

exception_Demo.numberFormatException_Demo();

exception_Demo.stringIndexOutOfBoundsException_Demo();

exception_Demo.fileNotFoundException_Demo();

}

public void arithmeticException_Demo() {

try {

int a = 30, b = 0;

int c = a / b; // cannot divide by zero

System.out.println("Result = " + c);

} catch (StringIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {

System.out.println("StringIndexOutOfBoundsException");

} catch (NumberFormatException e) {

System.out.println("Number format exception");

} catch (NullPointerException e) {

System.out.println("NullPointerException..");

} catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {

System.out.println("Array Index is Out Of Bounds");

} catch (ArithmeticException e) {

System.out.println("ArithmeticException Can't divide a number by 0");

} catch (Exception e) {

System.out.println("Exception");

e.printStackTrace();

} finally{

System.out.println("finally block");

}

public void arrayIndexOutOfBoundsException_Demo() {

try {

int a[] = new int[5];

a[6] = 9; // accessing 7th element in an array of

// size 5

} catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {

System.out.println("Array Index is Out Of Bounds");

}

public void nullPointerException_Demo() {

try {

String a = null; // null value

System.out.println(a.charAt(0));

} catch (NullPointerException e) {

System.out.println("NullPointerException..");

}

public void numberFormatException_Demo() {

try {

// "akki" is not a number

int num = Integer.parseInt("akki");

System.out.println(num);

} catch (NumberFormatException e) {

System.out.println("Number format exception");

}

public void stringIndexOutOfBoundsException_Demo() {

try {

String a = "This is like chipping "; // length is 22

char c = a.charAt(24); // accessing 25th element

System.out.println(c);

} catch (StringIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {

System.out.println("StringIndexOutOfBoundsException");

}

public void fileNotFoundException_Demo() {

try {

// Following file does not exist

File file = new File("E://file.txt");

FileReader fr = new FileReader(file);

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

System.out.println("File does not exist");

}

35) Differenc b/w Exception & Error?

Exceptions are recoverable,most of the cases exceptions are raised due to program only.

Errors are non-recoverable,most of the cases errors are due lock of system resources but not due to our programs.

36) What is final ?

final is the modifier applicable for classes,methods and variables.

i)if a class declared as final ,then we cann’t create child class.

ii)if a method declared as final,then we are not override that method in the child class.

iii)if a variable declared as final,we cann’t change that variable.

37) How can you invoke a current class constructor from a method ?

By using “this”.

38) How can you invoke a super class constructor from derived class?

Using “super()”

39) What is “static”?

Static is a keyword, applicable for methods, blocks, variables and nested classes.

Static variables a single copy will be created at class level and shared by all objects of that

class.

Static variables should be declared with in the class but outside of any method or block or

constructor.

Static variables will be created at the time of class loading and destroyed at the time of unloading.

We can access static variables either by using class name or by using object reference using class

name is recommended.

Ex:

class Test

{

int i;

static int j = 10;

public static void main(String arg[])

{

Test t1 = new Test();

t1.i = 888;

t1.j = 999;

Test t2 = new Test();

System.out.println(t2.i+" ----"+t2.j);

}

O/P:- 0----999

For the static variables no need to perform initialization JVM will always provide default values.

Ex:

class Test

{

static int i;

public static void main(String arg[])

{

System.out.println(i); //0

}

40) What is “instanceOf”?

The operator that checks whether given instance is belongs to the given class or not.

41) Can I create an interface without methods, constants declarations?

Yes

42) Can I place try & catch blocks in finally block?

Yes

43) What are the clone types?

44) How can you make an ArrayList as Synchronized list?

List l=Collections.synchronizedArrayList(new ArrayLsit());

Map m=Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap());

45) What is Serialization?

Writing the state of an object in to Streams or files is called Serialization.

The Process of Saving an object to a file is called “serialization”. But strictly

speaking serialization is the process of converting an object from java supported format to network

or file supported format.

By using FileOutPutStream, ObjectOutPutStream classes we can achieve serialization.

FileOutputStream fos=new FileOutputStream(“file name”); ---file opened

ObjectOutputStream oos=new Object OutputStream(fos); --Object takes file ref

UserDefSerCls uds=new UserDefSerCls(,” ”,);

Oos.writeObject(uds);

Oos.close();

46) How can you made the fields of a class to not serialized?

Using the modifier called “transient”

47) What is the use with Generics?

Array objects are by default typesafe. i.e we declare String Array we can insert only String Objects. By Mistake if we r trying to insert any other elements we will get compile time error.

Ex:

String [] s = new String[100];

s[0] = "raju";

s[1] = 10; //C.E

But Collection objects are not typesafe by default. If our requirement is to add only String objects to the ArrayList , By mistake if we r trying to insert any other element we won’t get any compile time error.

ArrayList l = new ArrayList();

l.add(“raju”);

l.add(new Integer(10)); //No Compile Time Error.

by using generics we can provide typesafety and we can resolve typecasting problems.

By using generics we can define parameter for the collection. These parameterized collection classes are nothing but “Generic collection classes”.

Polymorphism concept is not applicable for the parameter type but applicable for basetype

List<String> l = new ArrayList<String>()

The type parameter must be object type(any class or interface name). we can’t apply generic concept for primitive datatype.

Ex:- ArrayList<int> l = new ArrayList<int>();

C.E:- unexpected type found : int

Required : Integer

In generics we have only extends keyword and there is no implements keyword. It’s purpose is also survived by using extends keyword only.

Generics is the concept applicable only at compile time to provide type safety, at runtime there is no

generic concept at all.

48) What is “Reflection”?

It allows to do Mirror image operations on classes/interfaces to get the internal details.

49) How do you maintain versions in your project?

Using SVN.

50) What is Junit?

Junit is new framework designed for Java to perform unit testing. It is an Open source framework. Junit is an instance of xUnit architecture... and writing test cases. Junit also have a Graphical User Interface which allows

JUnit is an open source framework that has been designed for the purpose of writing and running tests in the Java programming language. JUnit was originally written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck. There are many ways to write test cases. A test case is a code fragment that checks that another code unit (method) works as expected. So if we want an accurate and efficient testing process then using a good testing framework is recommended. JUnit has established a good reputation in this scenario.

JUnit is a regression-testing framework that developers can use to write unit tests as they develop systems. Unit testing belongs to test a single unit of code, which can be a single class for Java. This framework creates a relationship between development and testing. You start coding according to the specification and need and use the JUnit test runners to verify how much it deviates from the intended goal. Typically, in a unit testing, we start testing after completing a module but JUnit helps us to code and test both during the development. So it sets more focus on testing the fundamental building blocks of a system i.e. one block at a time rather than module level functional testing. This really helps to develop test suites that can be run any time when you make any changes in your code. This all process will make you sure that the modifications in the code will not break your system without your knowledge.

Using a framework, like JUnit, to develop your test cases has a number of advantages, most important being that others will be able to understand test cases and easily write new ones and that most development tools enable for automated and / or one click test case execution.

JUnit provides also a graphical user interface (GUI) which makes it possible to write and test source code quickly and easily. JUnit shows test progress in a bar that is green if testing is going fine and it turns red when a test fails. There is a lot of pleasure in seeing the green bars grow in the GUI output. A list of unsuccessful tests appears at the bottom of the display window. We can run multiple testsconcurrently. The simplicity of JUnit makes it possible for the software developer to easily correct bugs as they are found.

51)How Java is Platform Independent?

Because the magic of byte code.

.class file—byte code

52) What is Association and Composition?

53) How can I achieve multiple inheritance in Java without using inheritance?

54) Write the code for a class which implements the Runnable interface?

Public class RunClass implement Runnable{

-------------

public void run(){

---------

}

Runnable r=new RunClass();

Thread thr=new Thread(r);

thr.start();

55) There are m1(), m2() methods and t1,t2 threads.

How can t1 execute m1() and t2 executes m2()?

56) What is “join()”?

join()

If a thread wants to wait until some other thread completion then we should go for join method.

Ex:

If a thread t1 executes t2.join(), then t1 will be entered into waiting state until t2

completion.

public final void join() throws InterruptedException

public final void join(long ms) throws InterruptedException

public final void join(long ms, int ns) throws InterruptedException

57) What is InterruptedException?

When two or more threads try to access same object simultaneously, then this exception

occurs. Join(), wait(), notify() ,notifyAll() throws InterruptedException.

58) What an Interface allows in its inside?

Inside interface, all variables are by default public static final variables and methods are abstract methods. And static and default methods are allowed in interface from java 8

59) Can I define a class inside an Interface?

Yes

60) What is the interface implemented by HashMap and Hashtable?

Map (i)

61) Can you unit test a “private method”?

Not testing private methods - Sometimes a private method is doing very complicated tasks that should be tested very well, and we don't want that user will have access to this methods. Soon the solution is changing private methods to protected.

You can't do that with Mockito but you can use Powermock to extend Mockito and mock private methods

62) What are the methods with Serializable interface?

No methods are there in Serializable Interface as a Marker/Tagged Interface.

Ex: Serializable, Cloneable, Remote, SingleThreadModel.

63) What are the Http request methods?

GET,POST

64) Can I Implement Serializable when I don’t want to save the object in persistence stores?

If NetWork is there then YES else NO.

65) What is “reflection api”?

import java.lang.reflection;

Reflection API based applications are capable of gathering “internal details
about a Java class/ interface by performing Mirror Image Operations on that class/interface.

66) What is an Application Server?

i) It allows to deploy all types of Java applications like web, distributed,enterprise

applications.

ii) It contains both web and ejb containers.

iii) It gives more implicit middle ware support like Transaction management, Security, Connection pooling.

67) How to know the no. of dynamically generated objects of a class?

Take a Static count variable, pass this to a” Parameter Constructor” and keep the

increment operation inside it.

68) What are the primitives?

byte, int, short, long, float, double, char, boolean local variables.

69) What happens when we store primitives to Collections?

70) What are the Wrapper class objects?

The primitives are not allowed to store inside the collections. So, they will be converted into

Wrapper class objects using their respective wrapper classes.

71) What is the difference between “Apache Server” & “Tomcat Server”?

Apache/ Apache HTTP Server, is an established standard in the online distribution of website services, which gave the initial boost for the expansion of the W.W.W.

. It is an open-source web server platform, which guarantees the online availability of the majority of the websites active today.

The server is aimed at serving a great deal of widely popular modern web platforms/operating systems such as Unix, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Novell NetWare, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, etc.

72) Why do we require Application Server instead of Web Server?

73) An application is having “images”. Which Server is preferable?

74) What is Autoboxing?

Autoboxing is an implicit automatic conversion from Primitives to Wrapper class objects.

Ex: float p_float=0.5f;------à Float 0_float=new Float(p_float); // will done implicitely.

Unboxing is an implicit automatic conversion from Wrapper class objects to Primitives.

Ex: Float o_float=0.2f;----à float p_float=o_float;

75) What are new features of jdk1.5?

Generics, Enhanced For loop, Autoboxing/Unboxing, Static import, Annotations.

76) Write the code for “Enhanced for loop”?

int[] integers={1,2,3,4,5};

for(int item:integers){

S.o.p(item);

}

77) What is an Annotation in JDK1.5?

Sun has recently released Annotation Processing Tool (apt) along with beta2 of JDK1.5.

This tool greatly helps in using the annotations feature that is introduced in JDK1.5

Annotations can be at package level, class level, field level, method level and even at

local variable level.

78) I have a HashMap. I want to get the keys & values in a set. Can you write the code?

import java.util.*;

class keyvaluemap

{

public static void main(String[] args)

{

HashMap hm=new HashMap();

hm.put(1,"ram");

hm.put(2,"sri");

System.out.println(hm);

Set s=hm.entrySet();

Iterator it=s.iterator();

while(it.hasNext())

{

Map.Entry m1=(Map.Entry)it.next();

System.out.println(m1.getKey()+"----"+m1.getValue());

}

79) Which algorithm is used by JVM while running Garbage Collection?

Mark-in-sweep.

80) How do you Unit test in Spring environment?

81) How do you disable all the JavaScripts of pages in an application?

82) What does Tomcat Support?

War file

83) In HashMap, how can I locate a particular key?

Hm.containsKey(“3”);

Hm.containsValue(“key”);

84) Difference b/w SVN(Sub VersioN) & VSS (Visual Source Safe--microsoft)?

Usually team members do all of their work separately, in their own working copies and need to share their work. This is done via a Subversion repository. Syncro SVN Client supports the versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 of the SVN repository format

1. Expansion. The number of programmers doubled and we didn't want to fork out for the extra VSS licenses

2. Bugs. VSS is good at maintaining the latest version of a file, but histories often got corrupted.

3. More bugs. The checking/recovery tools were useless as they started crashing when the database got very large.

85) ACID Operations

Atomicity:

The process of combining invisible & individual operations into a single unit.

Consistency:

It is a process where the rules applied on DB may be violated during Tx

but no rule is violated at the end of a Tx.

Ex: Account table—balance field –no negative bal

Isolation:

The process of applying locks on a DB table at various levels to avoid data corruption

when multiple users are allowed concurrently/simultaneously.

Durability:

The process of bringing the DB s/w original state using the log & back up files

when it was crashed/corrupted.

86) Why there is Object class?

To provides the default, common implemented code for every java class/interface.

The Object Class is the super class for all classes in Java.

Methods available in Object class are:

int hashCode(),

boolean equals(Object obj),

void finalize() throws Throwable,

String toString(),

Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException,

final Class getClass()

final void wait()throws InterruptedException

final void notify()throws InterruptedException

final void notifyAll()throws InterruptedException

clone()

An object is an instance of a class created using a new operator. The new operator returns a reference to a new instance of a class. This reference can be assigned to a reference variable of the class. The process of creating objects from a class is called instantiation. An object encapsulates state and behavior.

An object reference provides a handle to an object that is created and stored in memory. In Java, objects can only be manipulated via references, which can be stored in variables.

Creating variables of your class type is similar to creating variables of primitive data types, such as integer or float. Each time you create an object, a new set of instance variables comes into existence which defines the characteristics of that object. If you want to create an object of the class and have the reference variable associated with this object, you must also allocate memory for the object by using the new operator. This process is called instantiating an object or creating an object instance.

When you create a new object, you use the new operator to instantiate the object. The new operator returns the location of the object which you assign o a reference type.

Below is an example showing the creation of Cube objects by using the new operator.

public class Cube {

int length = 10;

int breadth = 10;

int height = 10;

public int getVolume() {

return (length * breadth * height);

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

Cube cubeObj; // Creates a Cube Reference

cubeObj = new Cube(); // Creates an Object of Cube

System.out.println("Volume of Cube is : " + cubeObj.getVolume());

}

87) Why hashcode(),equals()…are there in Object class?

88) What is the problem with Autoboxing ?

89) What is an Nested class?

The class defined in another class.

Nested class Types:

i) static nested class

ii) non-static nested class (inner class)

Nested class Use :

i) They can lead to more readable & maintainable code.

ii) It increases encapsulation.

iii) It is a way of logically grouping classes that are only used in one place.

Inner-class object creation:

OuterClass.InnerClass innerObject=outerObject.new InnerClass().

Anonymous Class: a name-less local class .

When to use:

i) when a class has a short body.

ii) only one instance of the class is needed.

90) Inner classes in java

Inner class means one class which is a member of another class. There are basically four types of inner classes in java.

1) Nested Inner class

2) Method Local inner classes

3) Anonymous inner classes

4) Static nested classes

Nested Inner class can access any private instance variable of outer class. Like any other instance variable, we can have access modifier private, protected, public and default modifier.

Like class, interface can also be nested and can have access specifiers.

1)Following example demonstrates a nested class.

class Outer {

// Simple nested inner class

class Inner {

public void show() {

System.out.println("In a nested class method");

}

class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Outer.Inner in = new Outer().new Inner();

in.show();

}

Output:

In a nested class method

As a side note, we can’t have static method in a nested inner class because an inner class is implicitly associated with an object of its outer class so it cannot define any static method for itself. For example the following program doesn’t compile.

class Outer {

void outerMethod() {

System.out.println("inside outerMethod");

}

class Inner {

public static void main(String[] args){

System.out.println("inside inner class Method");

}

Output:

Error illegal static declaration in inner class

Outer.Inner public static void main(String[] args)

modifier ‘static’ is only allowed in constant

variable declaration

An interface can also be nested and nested interfaces have some interesting properties. We will be covering nested interfaces in the next post.

2)Method Local inner classes

Inner class can be declared within a method of an outer class. In the following example, Inner is an inner class in outerMethod().

class Outer {

void outerMethod() {

System.out.println("inside outerMethod");

// Inner class is local to outerMethod()

class Inner {

void innerMethod() {

System.out.println("inside innerMethod");

}

Inner y = new Inner();

y.innerMethod();

}

class MethodDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Outer x = new Outer();

x.outerMethod();

}

Output

Inside outerMethod

Inside innerMethod

Method Local inner classes can’t use local variable of outer method until that local variable is not declared as final. For example, the following code generates compiler error (Note that x is not final in outerMethod() and innerMethod() tries to access it)

class Outer {

void outerMethod() {

int x = 98;

System.out.println("inside outerMethod");

class Inner {

void innerMethod() {

System.out.println("x= "+x);

}

Inner y = new Inner();

y.innerMethod();

}

class MethodLocalVariableDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Outer x=new Outer();

x.outerMethod();

}

Output:

local variable x is accessed from within inner class;

needs to be declared final

Note : Local inner class cannot access non-final local variable till JDK 1.7. Since JDK 1.8, it is
possible to access the non-final local variable in method local inner class.

But the following code compiles and runs fine (Note that x is final this time)

class Outer {

void outerMethod() {

final int x=98;

System.out.println("inside outerMethod");

class Inner {

void innerMethod() {

System.out.println("x = "+x);

}

Inner y = new Inner();

y.innerMethod();

}

class MethodLocalVariableDemo {

public static void main(String[] args){

Outer x = new Outer();

x.outerMethod();

}

Output-:

Inside outerMethod

X = 98

The main reason we need to declare a local variable as a final is that local variable lives on stack till
method is on the stack but there might be a case the object of inner class still lives on the heap.

Method local inner class can’t be marked as private, protected, static and transient but can be marked
as abstract and final, but not both at the same time.

4)Static nested classes

Static nested classes are not technically an inner class. They are like a static member of outer class.

class Outer {

private static void outerMethod() {

System.out.println("inside outerMethod");

}

// A static inner class

static class Inner {

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.out.println("inside inner class Method");

outerMethod();

}

Output:

local variable x is accessed from within inner class;

needs to be declared final

Note : Local inner class cannot access non-final local variable till JDK 1.7. Since JDK 1.8, it is
possible to access the non-final local variable in method local inner class.

But the following code compiles and runs fine (Note that x is final this time)

class Outer {

void outerMethod() {

final int x=98;

System.out.println("inside outerMethod");

class Inner {

void innerMethod() {

System.out.println("x = "+x);

}

Inner y = new Inner();

y.innerMethod();

}

class MethodLocalVariableDemo {

public static void main(String[] args){

Outer x = new Outer();

x.outerMethod();

}

Output-:

Inside outerMethod

X = 98

Method local inner class can’t be marked as private, protected, static and transient but can be marked
as abstract and final, but not both at the same time.

4)Static nested classes

Static nested classes are not technically an inner class. They are like a static member of outer class.

class Outer {

private static void outerMethod() {

System.out.println("inside outerMethod");

}

// A static inner class

static class Inner {

public static void main(String[] args) {

System.out.println("inside inner class Method");

outerMethod();

}

Output

inside inner class Method

inside outerMethod

Anonymous inner classes

Anonymous inner classes are declared without any name at all. They are created in two ways.

a) As subclass of specified type

class Demo {

void show() {

System.out.println("i am in show method of super class");

}

class Flavor1Demo {

// An anonymous class with Demo as base class

static Demo d = new Demo() {

void show() {

super.show();

System.out.println("i am in Flavor1Demo class");

}

};

public static void main(String[] args){

d.show();

}

Output

i am in show method of super class

i am in Flavor1Demo class

In the above code, we have two class Demo and Flavor1Demo. Here demo act as super class and
anonymous class acts as a subclass, both classes have a method show(). In anonymous class show()
method is overridden.

a) As implementer of the specified interface

class Flavor2Demo {

// An anonymous class that implements Hello interface

static Hello h = new Hello() {

public void show() {

System.out.println("i am in anonymous class");

}

};

public static void main(String[] args) {

h.show();

}

interface Hello {

void show();

}

Output:

i am in anonymous class

In above code we create an object of anonymous inner class but this anonymous inner class is an implementer of the interface Hello. Any anonymous inner class can implement only one interface
at one time. It can either extend a class or implement interface at a time.

91) What is Collection use?

They allow to store heterogeneous objects.

92) How do you get key when value is available from HashMap?

HashMap<Integer,String> hm=new HashMap<Integer,String>();

hm.put(1,”ram”);

hm.put(2,”sri”);

hm.put(3,”mano”);

Set<Entry<Integer,String>> set=hm.entrySet();

for(Map.Entry<Integer,String> me:set){

if(me.getValue()==”ram”)

s.o.p(“the key value is:”+key):}

Set s=hm.entrySet();

Iterator itr=s.iterator();

while(itr.hasNext()){

Object mobj=itr.next();

Map.Entry me=(Map.Entry)mobj;

if(me.getValue()=="anu")

System.out.println("key is:"+me.getKey() );}

93) How to convert list into HashMap?

94) Some important concepts:

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Introduction to Java Classes

A class is nothing but a blueprint or a template for creating different objects which defines its
properties and behaviors.

Java class objects exhibit the properties and behaviors defined by its class.

A class can contain fields and methods to describe the behavior of an object.

Methods are nothing but members of a class that provide a service for an object or perform some
business logic.

Java fields and member functions names are case sensitive. Current states of a class’s

corresponding object are stored in the object’s instance variables. Methods define the operations that
can be performed in java programming.

A class has the following general syntax:

<class modifiers> class <class name>

<extends clause> <implements clause>{

// Dealing with Classes (Class body)

}

Below is an example showing the Objects and Classes of the Cube class that defines 3 fields namely
length, breadth and height. Also the class contains a member function getVolume().

public class Cube {

int length;

int breadth;

int height;

public int getVolume() {

return (length * breadth * height);

}

How do you reference a data member/function?

This is accomplished by stating the name of the object reference, followed by a period (dot),
followed by the name of the member inside the object.( objectReference.member ).

You call a method for an object by naming the object followed by a period (dot), followed by the
name of the method and its argument list, like this:

objectName.methodName(arg1, arg2, arg3).

For example:

cubeObject.length = 4;

cubeObject.breadth = 4;

cubeObject.height = 4;

cubeObject.getvolume()

Class Variables /Static Fields

We use class variables also know as Static fields when we want to share characteristics across all
objects within a class. When you declare a field to be static, only a single instance of the associated
variable is created common to all the objects of that class. Hence when one object changes the value
of a class variable, it affects all objects of the class. We can access a class variable by using the name
of the class, and not necessarily using a reference to an individual object within the class.

Static variables can be accessed even though no objects of that class exist. It is declared using static
keyword.

Class Methods /Static Methods

Class methods, similar to Class variables can be invoked without having an instance of the class.
Class methods are often used to provide global functions for Java programs.

For example, methods in the java.lang.Mathpackage are class methods. You cannot call non-static
methods from inside a static method.

Instance Variables

Instance variables stores the state of the object. Each class would have its own copy of the variable.
Every object has a state that is determined by the values stored in the object. An object is said to have changed its state when one or more data values stored in the object have been modified. When an
object responds to a message, it will usually perform an action, change its state etc. An object that has
the ability to store values is often said to have persistence.

Consider this simple Java program showing the use of static fields and static methods

// Class and Object initialization showing the Object Oriented concepts in Java

class Cube {

int length = 10;

int breadth = 10;

int height = 10;

public static int numOfCubes = 0; // static variable

public static int getNoOfCubes() { //static method

return numOfCubes;

}

public Cube() {

numOfCubes++; //

}

public class CubeStaticTest {

public static void main(String args[]) {

System.out.println("Number of Cube objects = " + Cube.numOfCubes);

System.out.println("Number of Cube objects = "

+ Cube.getNoOfCubes());

}

Output

Number of Cube objects = 0

Final Variable, Methods and Classes

1) In Java we can mark fields, methods and classes as final. Once marked as final, these items cannot
be changed.

2) Variables defined in an interface are implicitly final. You can’t change value of a final variable (is a constant).

3) A final class can’t be extended i.e., final class may not be subclassed. This is done for security
reasons with basic classes like String and Integer. It also allows the compiler to make some
optimizations, and makes thread safety a little easier to achieve.

4) A final method can’t be overridden when its class is inherited. Any attempt to override or hide a
final method will result in a compiler error.

Method Overloading

Method overloading results when two or more methods in the same class have the same name but
different parameters. Methods with the same name must differ in their types or number of parameters.
This allows the compiler to match parameters and choose the correct method when a number of
choices exist. Changing just the return type is not enough to overload a method, and will be a compile
-time error. They must have a different signature. When no method matching the input parameters is
found, the compiler attempts to convert the input parameters to types of greater precision. A match
may then be found without error. At compile time, the right implementation is chosen based on the
signature of the method call

Below is an example of a class demonstrating Method Overloading

public class MethodOverloadDemo {

void sumOfParams() { // First Version

System.out.println("No parameters");

}

void sumOfParams(int a) { // Second Version

System.out.println("One parameter: " + a);

}

int sumOfParams(int a, int b) { // Third Version

System.out.println("Two parameters: " + a + " , " + b);

return a + b;

}

double sumOfParams(double a, double b) { // Fourth Version

System.out.println("Two double parameters: " + a + " , " + b);

return a + b;

}

public static void main(String args[]) {

MethodOverloadDemo moDemo = new MethodOverloadDemo();

int intResult;

double doubleResult;

moDemo.sumOfParams();

System.out.println();

moDemo.sumOfParams(2);

System.out.println();

intResult = moDemo.sumOfParams(10, 20);

System.out.println("Sum is " + intResult);

System.out.println();

doubleResult = moDemo.sumOfParams(1.1, 2.2);

System.out.println("Sum is " + doubleResult);

System.out.println();

}

Output

No parameters

One parameter: 2

Two parameters: 10 , 20

Sum is 30

Two double parameters: 1.1 , 2.2

Sum is 3.3000000000000003

Below is a code snippet to shows the interfaces that a Class Implements:

Class cls = java.lang.String.class;

Class[] intfs = cls.getInterfaces();

// [java.lang.Comparable, java.lang.CharSequence, java.io.Serializable]

// The interfaces for a primitive type is an empty array

cls = int.class;

intfs = cls.getInterfaces(); // []

Below is a code snippet to show whether a Class Object Represents a Class or Interface:

Class cls = java.lang.String.class;

boolean isClass = !cls.isInterface(); // true

cls = java.lang.Cloneable.class;

isClass = !cls.isInterface(); // false

95) Class loaders in Java

Class loaders in Java are part of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and are responsible for dynamically loading classes into the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) during runtime.

Thanks to class loaders:

Java applications can load classes on demand, rather than all at once.
The JVM remains platform-independent, as it doesn’t deal directly with files or file systems.

🔰 Types of Built-in Class Loaders

Java provides three main types of built-in class loaders:

1. Bootstrap Class Loader

Loads: Core Java classes (e.g., java.lang.*, java.util.*)
Source: rt.jar or similar core library JARs (located in $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib)
Characteristics:
- Part of the JVM, written in native code (not Java).
- Has no parent, considered the root of the class loader hierarchy.

2. Extension (Platform) Class Loader

Loads: Classes from the extension directory.
Source: JAR files from $JAVA_HOME/lib/ext or specified by the java.ext.dirs system property.
Parent: Bootstrap Class Loader

3. System (Application) Class Loader

Loads: Classes from the application classpath.
Source: Directories and JARs specified by -cp or -classpath command-line options, or the CLASSPATH environment variable.
Parent: Extension Class Loader

🧩 Class Loader Hierarchy

Java follows a parent delegation model:

Bootstrap ClassLoader
        ↑
Extension ClassLoader
        ↑
System (Application) ClassLoader

Each class loader delegates the loading request to its parent before attempting to load the class itself. This helps:

Prevent multiple copies of core classes from being loaded.
Maintain security and consistency.

✅ Example:

If you try to use java.lang.String, the class loading process is:

System ClassLoader → delegates to
Extension ClassLoader → delegates to
Bootstrap ClassLoader → finds String.class in rt.jar

🔧 What is a Custom Class Loader?

A custom class loader allows you to override how and from where a Java class is loaded. Instead of loading classes from the default file system or classpath, you can load them:

From a database
Over a network
From encrypted JARs
Dynamically compiled source code

🏗️ Creating a Custom Class Loader

You can create a custom class loader by extending the java.lang.ClassLoader class and overriding the findClass() method.

✅ Minimal Example:

import java.io.*;
import java.nio.file.*;

public class MyClassLoader extends ClassLoader {

    private String classPath;

    public MyClassLoader(String classPath) {
        this.classPath = classPath;
    }

    @Override
    protected Class<?> findClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
        try {
            // Convert class name to file path
            String fileName = classPath + name.replace('.', '/') + ".class";
            byte[] classBytes = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(fileName));
            // Convert byte array to Class
            return defineClass(name, classBytes, 0, classBytes.length);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new ClassNotFoundException("Could not load class " + name, e);
        }
    }
}

🧪 Using the Custom Class Loader

public class TestCustomLoader {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        MyClassLoader loader = new MyClassLoader("C:/myclasses/");
        Class<?> clazz = loader.loadClass("com.example.MyClass");

        Object obj = clazz.getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance();
        System.out.println("Class loaded: " + obj.getClass().getName());
    }
}

⚙️ Key Methods in `ClassLoader`

Method	Purpose
`findClass(String name)`	Override this to define custom class loading logic.
`defineClass()`	Converts byte array into a `Class` object.
`loadClass()`	Main entry point, implements parent delegation (don’t override unless necessary).

🔐 When to Use Custom Class Loaders

Scenario	Example
Hot deployment	Load new versions of classes at runtime
Modular plugins	Eclipse, IntelliJ use custom loaders for each plugin
Dynamic class generation	Hibernate, Spring create proxy classes at runtime
Security	Load encrypted or obfuscated classes

⚠️ Important Notes

Always follow the parent delegation model, unless you have a specific reason not to.
Avoid breaking class compatibility (e.g., loading the same class from two class loaders will be treated as two different classes).
Use with caution: improper usage can lead to ClassCastException, LinkageError, or memory leaks (especially in web applications).

97)Difference between Java Heap Space and Stack Memory

1. Heap memory is used by all the parts of the application whereas stack memory is used only by one thread of execution.

2. Whenever an object is created, it’s always stored in the Heap space and stack memory contains the reference to it. Stack memory only contains local primitive variables and reference variables to objects in heap space.

3. Objects stored in the heap are globally accessible whereas stack memory can’t be accessed by other threads.

4. Memory management in stack is done in LIFO manner whereas it’s more complex in Heap memory because it’s used globally. Heap memory is divided into Young-Generation, Old-Generation etc, more details at Java Garbage Collection.

5. Stack memory is short-lived whereas heap memory lives from the start till the end of application execution.

6. We can use -Xms and -Xmx JVM option to define the startup size and maximum size of heap memory. We can use -Xss to define the stack memory size.

7. When stack memory is full, Java runtime throws java.lang.StackOverFlowError whereas if heap memory is full, it throws java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java Heap Space error.

8. Stack memory size is very less when compared to Heap memory. Because of simplicity in memory allocation (LIFO), stack memory is very fast when compared to heap memory.

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Java memory model is divided between Thread Stacks (One for each thread) and a heap area.

Thread Stack

It is a thread specific memory area and contains local variables, methods call information etc. JVM stacks could be of fixed size or variable size. If computation in a thread exceeds its stack size limit then JVM throws StackOverflowError and exits.

Heap

It contains all the objects created during application lifecycle. The heap is created when the virtual machine starts up. Garbage collector reclaims heap storage for objects and objects are never explicitly deallocated. The JVM is not using any automatic storage management system, and it may vary as per the system requirements. The heap may be of a fixed size or may vary as per requirement. The memory for the heap does not need to be contiguous.

Static variables are stored on heap area and object stored on the heap can be referred by references stored in thread stack.

Local variables are stored on stack area.

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Memory that can be shared between threads is called shared memory or heap memory.

All instance fields, static fields, and array elements are stored in heap memory.

Local variables (§14.4), formal method parameters (§8.4.1), and exception handler parameters (§14.20) are never shared between threads and are unaffected by the memory model.

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A local variable may be of a primitive type, in which case it is totally kept on the thread stack.

A local variable may also be a reference to an object. In that case the reference (the local variable) is stored on the thread stack, but the object itself if stored on the heap.

An object may contain methods and these methods may contain local variables. These local variables are also stored on the thread stack, even if the object the method belongs to is stored on the heap.

An object's member variables are stored on the heap along with the object itself. That is true both when the member variable is of a primitive type, and if it is a reference to an object.

Static class variables are also stored on the heap along with the class definition.

Objects on the heap can be accessed by all threads that have a reference to the object. When a thread has access to an object, it can also get access to that object's member variables. If two threads call a method on the same object at the same time, they will both have access to the object's member variables, but each thread will have its own copy of the local variables.

Here is a diagram illustrating the points above:

98)The volatile keyword in Java

volatile is used to indicate that a variable's value will be modified by different threads.

Declaring a volatile Java variable means:

The value of this variable will never be cached thread-locally: all reads and writes will go straight to "main memory";

Access to the variable acts as though it is enclosed in a synchronized block, synchronized on itself.

Difference between synchronized and volatile
Characteristic	Synchronized	Volatile
Type of variable	Object	Object or primitive
Null allowed?	No	Yes
Can block?	Yes	No
All cached variables synchronized on access?	Yes	From Java 5 onwards
When synchronization happens	When you explicitly enter/exit a synchronized block	Whenever a volatile variable is accessed.
Can be used to combined several operations into an atomic operation?	Yes	Pre-Java 5, no. Atomic get-set of volatiles possible in Java 5.

In other words, the main differences between synchronized and volatile are:

a primitive variable may be declared volatile (whereas you can't synchronize on a primitive with synchronized);

an access to a volatile variable never has the potential to block: we're only ever doing a simple read or write, so unlike a synchronized block we will never hold on to any lock;

because accessing a volatile variable never holds a lock, it is not suitable for cases where we want to read-update-write as an atomic operation (unless we're prepared to "miss an update");

a volatile variable that is an object reference may be null (because you're effectively synchronizing on the reference, not the actual object).

Attempting to synchronize on a null object will throw a NullPointerException.

99)ThreadPool in Java

A thread pool is a group of threads initially created that waits for jobs and executes them. The idea is to have the threads always existing, so that we won't have to pay overhead time for creating them every time. They are appropriate when we know there's a stream of jobs to process, even though there could be some time when there are no jobs.

There are various thread pools in java:

1)Single Thread Executor : A thread pool with only one thread. So all the submitted tasks will be executed sequentially. Method : Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor()

2)Cached Thread Pool : A thread pool that creates as many threads it needs to execute the task in parallel. The old available threads will be reused for the new tasks. If a thread is not used during 60 seconds, it will be terminated and removed from the pool. Method : Executors.newCachedThreadPool()

3)Fixed Thread Pool : A thread pool with a fixed number of threads. If a thread is not available for the task, the task is put in queue waiting for an other task to ends. Method : Executors.newFixedThreadPool()

4)Scheduled Thread Pool : A thread pool made to schedule future task. Method : Executors.newScheduledThreadPool()

5)Single Thread Scheduled Pool : A thread pool with only one thread to schedule future task. Method : Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor()

100)Why is Java not a pure OOP Language?

Java is a OOP language and it is not a pure Object Based Programming Language. If any language is said to be pure Object Oriented Programming language, then that language can satisfy with seven qualities. These are :

i)Abstraction

ii)Encapsulation/Data Hiding

iii)Inheritance

iV)Polymorphism

v)All predefined types are objects

vi)All operations are performed by sending messages to objects

vii)All user defined types are objects.

1)Java is not pure OOP language because it supports Primitive data type such as int, byte, long... etc, to be used, which are not objects.

Contrast with a pure OOP language like Smalltalk, where there are no primitive types, and boolean, int and methods are all objects.

2)The static keyword: When we declares a class as static then it can be used without the use of an object in Java. If we are using static function or static variable then we can’t call that function or variable by using dot(.) or class object defying object oriented feature.

Wrapper Class: Wrapper class provides the mechanism to convert primitive into object and object into primitive. In Java, you can use Integer, Float etc. instead of int, float etc. We can communicate with objects without calling their methods. ex. using arithmetic operators.

String s1 = "ABC" + "A" ;

Even using Wrapper classes does not make Java a pure OOP language, as internally it will use the operations like Unboxing and Autoboxing. So if you create instead of int Integer and do any mathematical operation on it, under the hoods Java is going to use primitive type int only.

public class BoxingExample

{

public static void main(String[] args)

{

Integer i = new Integer(10);

Integer j = new Integer(20);

Integer k = new Integer(i.intValue() + j.intValue());

System.out.println("Output: "+ k);

}

In the above code, there are 2 problems where Java fails to work as pure OOP:

While creating Integer class you are using primitive type “int” i.e. numbers 10, 20.

While doing addition Java is using primitive type “int”.

101) How are you using “Statement” like interface methods even without knowing their

implementations classes in JDBC?

The Statement interface provides a standard abstraction to execute SQL statements and return the
results using the ResultSet objects.

A Statement object contains a single ResultSet object at a time. The execute method of a Statement implicitly close its current ResultSet if it is already open. PreparedStatement and
CallableStatement are two specialized Statement interfaces. You can create a Statement object by
using the createStatement() method of the Connection interface as:

Statement st = con.createStatement();

//You can then execute the statement, get the ResultSet and iterate over it:

ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("select * from employeeList");

while (rs.next()) {

System.out.println(rs.getString("empname"));

}

102) What is “IN”, “OUT”, “INOUT” parameters?

in, out, inout are the modes of the variables in PL/SQl.

“ in” is input variable mode.

“out” is output variable mode.

“inout” is in-out variable mode.

103) What classes are there in Spring Environment?

Spring config.xml, SpringBean class, SpringBean interface(POJI interface) and POJO class.

104) When I don’t want to commit the ResultSet obj content, what to do?

con.setAutoCommit(“false”);

105) What is the difference b/w “order by” and “group by”?

“order by”--> used to arrange the data either in ascending or descending order.

“group by”--> allows aggregation operations on a column .(having condition also).

106) What are the relations?

One to one

One to many

Many to one

Many to many.

107) What are the joins?

Cursors, views, stored procedures….

108) Which tools do you used in design documents?

109) What is XML parser, SAX, DOM parsers?

110) Differences b/w Statement and PreparedStatement apart from performance issue?

Q: What are Statements types?

1) Statement: Statement is used to execute a “query” only for one time in the entire application

execution.

2) PreparedStatement: PreparedStatement is used to execute same “query” for multiple no. of times

with the same/different values. It works with compiled query & allows place holders.

3) CallableStatement: It is used to execute PL/SQL Procedures/functions from the Java appl.

111) How do you configured Spring DAO?

In contextApplication.xml

112) How to configure “counter” to know no. of users visited the website?

<%!

int count=0;

count++;

The no of hits is:<%=count%>

</font>

113) How to invoke stored procedures from a Java application?

Using CallableStatement & prepareStatement();

114) What Design patterns do you know?

MVC, Singleton class, Factory , FrontController, DAO class, D.T.O/V.O these are

design patterns I know

115) What is HB? What are its files.

It is an ORM tool that is there to develop DB independent persistence logic.

Hibernate-config.xml, Hibernate-mapping.xml, pojo class

116) How to integrate HB with Spring?

The DAO implementation class of spring must extends HibernateDAOSupport and

implements DAO interface.

117) How to integrate Struts with Spring?

ContextLoaderServlet and

applicationContext.xml configured in struts-config.xml that is there in web.xml

118) What are the differences b/w BeanFactory and ApplicationContext?

BeanFactory (I) container ApplicationContext (I)

to develop spring core applications. It is an advanced & extended for BeanFactory.

It gives full fledged spring features support like;

i) Bean property values can be collected from

“outside properties file”.

ii) gives support for Pre-Initialization of Beans.

iii) text messages can be collected from

outside property files to give support for i18n.

iv) allows to work with EventHandling through Listeners.

119) What are the SessionTracking Techniques?

Session Tracking: is a technique by which the client data can be remembered across

the multiple requests given by a client during a Session.

1) Hidden Form Fields

2) Http Cookies

3) HttpSession with Cookies

4) HttpSession with URL-rewriting.(best)

120) How to handle multiple submit buttons in a HTML form?

Code for accessing the above data in Servlet.

String cap=request.getParameter(“s1”);

if(cap.equals(“add”)) {

---------- }

elseif(cap.equals(“delete”)) {

------------- }

else(cap.equals(“modify”)) {

------------ }

121) What you write to open a window?

Window.open(); in Javascript

<a href="javascript:;" onClick="mm_openbrwindow('Mypage.html','','width=800, height=600, scrollbars=no')">MyPage</a>

newwindow=window.open(url,'name','height=500,width=400,left=100,

top=100,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,status=yes');

122) Do you know CSS? What can I do with CSS?

CSS is a style language that defines layout of HTML documents. For example, CSS covers fonts,

colours, margins, lines, height, width, background images, advanced positions and many other things

123)What is the difference between CSS and HTML?

HTML is used to structure content. CSS is used for formatting structured content.

124) Code for DataSource?

Context ct=new InitialContext();

Object obj=ct.lookUp(“ JNDI name of dataSource reference”);

DataSource ds=(DataSource)obj;

Connecton con=ds.getConnection();

Statement st=con.createStatement();

--------------------

con.close();

125) What is the return type of “executeUpdate()” ?

It is used to execute “Non-Select queries” and

whose return type is “int”.

126) What is “OUTER join”?

Outer join supports 3types joins.These are

i)left outer join

ii)right outer join

iii)full outer join

It gives both matching and non-matching rows.

127) Why there are Directive and Action tags in JSP?

Directive tags: perform Global operations on a page like

i) importing packages,

ii) working with tag-library

iii) including other JSPs content and etc.,.

ex: page, include, taglib

Action tags:

are there to perform actions during request-processing/execution phase of JSP.

Ex: include, forward,useBean, setProperty, getProperty, param, plugin.

128) What is Expression tag in JSP?

It is used to

i) evaluate a Java expression & sends that result to Browser-window. <%=a+b;%>

ii) display the variable values on the Browser-window. <% int a=10;%> <% =a %>

iii) call both pre-defined & user-defined methods.

<%=sum(10,20)%> , <%=”raja”.length()%>

iv) instantiates java classes & to display the default data of the object.

date and time is:<%=new java.util.Date();%>

129) What is Self Join? A table joins with itself.

sum(): select sum(salarycolumn) from tablename group by salarycolumn;--groups the same

salaries into different groups.

select sum(salarycolumn) from tablename;-à gives total sum of salary column

130) What is Setter and Constructor injection?

Setter Injection:

Setter Injection is a process of injecting/assigning the dependent values to the Bean properties

by the spring container using Bean class setXXX(-) methods.

Note: In Spring Config.xml:

</property>

Constructor Injection:

Constructor Injection is a process of assigning/injecting the dependent values to the

Bean properties

by the spring container using “parameterized Constructors”.

Note: In Spring config.xml:

<constructor-arg>

</constructor-arg>

131) Can we use Setter Injection when we use private Constructor?

132) What is “inverse=true” in hbm file?

The Association is bi-directional.

133) How to establish many to many association?

Declare one column as primary key in the Parent table.

Declare one column as primary key in the child table.

Take another table where above two primary keys will be declared as foreign keys.

134) Can I develop a spring application without hbm file.

Yes, by using “Annotation”

135) Can I develop a spring application without spring config.xml?

Yes, by using Properties file.

136) What is distributed transaction?

The transaction where two databases are used for a project.

137) Differences b/w procedure & function?

Procedure	Function
1) may or may not return value. 2) may returns one or many values(max.1024) 3) result is gathered only through OUT parameters.	must returns a value. Must return exactly one value through OUT parameters & return value.

138) Difference b/w Primary and Unique key?

Primary key:

Only one Primary key constraint can be applied to a table.

Primary key column won’t allow duplicates.

Primary key column won’t allow NULL.

Unique key: one or many Unique key constraint can be applied to one table.

It does n’t allows duplicates.

It allows NULL(only one time).

139) Explain Joins?

Purpose : to bind data together, across tables, without repeating all of the data in every table.

JOIN: Return rows when there is at least one match in both tables

LEFT OUTER JOIN: Return all rows from the left table, even if there are no matches in the

right table

RIGHT OUTER JOIN: Return all rows from the right table, even if there are no matches in the

left table

FULL OUTER JOIN: Return rows when there is a match in one of the tables

SELF JOIN :

EQUI/INNER JOIN:

140) How do you maintain bug tracking in your project?

Using JIRA tool.

JIRA is a Bug and Issue tracker. It has been designed:

• for Bug tracking

• aid in Project Management

• enable Agile Development

There is a connection tool to Eclipse that allows you to manage tasks, issues, builds, and code reviews directly in your integrated development environment.

JIRA is the project tracker for teams planning, building and launching great products.

Thousands of teams choose JIRA to capture and organize issues, work through action items, and stay

up-to-date with team activity.

As your dev team grows, so should your bug tracker. With our simple importer, it's easier than ever

to get your issues into JIRA and watch your team destroy bugs with the fury of a thousand mutant

dinosaurs.

Over 6,300 JIRA customers have gone Agile with GreenHopper.

GreenHopper will make your Agile adoption successful with presets for Scrum and Kanban.

Turbocharge JIRA to improve visibility across teams and projects.

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The completely re-imagined JIRA search experience lets you quickly find and organize your issues,

so you – and your team – can focus on what matters most. Getting the job done!

141) What tool are you using to write hundreds of fields for your project?

142) What code styles are you following in IDE?

143) Procedure to work with PreparedStatement in a Java application.

1). Prepare a query having “positional/place” holders/”in parameters”.ie.(?,?,?)

2). Send the query to DB s/w, make the query as “pre-compiled query” & represent

it through “PreparedStatement”.

3). Set the values for place-holders using “setXXX(-,-)”.

4). Execute the query.

5). To execute the same query for multiple no. of times with same/different values,

repeat steps 3 & 4 for multiple times.

6). Close PreparedStatement object.

à Pre-compiled query: a query that goes to DB & becomes

compiled-query without values, and also resides on DB.

It reduces “Network traffic” b/w Java appl & DB s/w.

144) How to display data from the table in HB?

SessionFactory sf = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();

Session session = sf.openSession();

Transaction t = session.beginTransaction();

Student st = new Student(); //pojo

//Displaying data from Student table using HQL

Query qry = session.createQuery("from Student");

List lt = qry.list(); // data saves into List with no restrictions

//Restrcting data based on age condition

Criteria ct = session.createCriteria(Student.class);

ct.add(Restrictions.age("studentAge", 20));

List lt = ct.list();

Iterator<Student> itr = lt.iterator(); // displays all records

System.out.println("Student no: \t Name : \t Age");

while (itr.hasNext()) {

Student student = itr.next();

System.out.println(student.getStudentId()+"\t"+

student.getStudentName()+"\t"+student.getStudentAge());

}

145) How to insert one record into a Table (single row insertion)

student.setStudentName("sridhar");

student.setStudentAge(28);

session.save(student);

146) How to update existing a table record?

student.setStudentId(5); //primary key val

student.setStudentName("sridhar");

student.setStudentAge(28);

session.saveOrUpdate(st);

147) How to delete a table record from HB session obj?

session.load(student, new Integer(1)); // load(Student.class, primarykey)

session.delete(student);

148) What are the Escape characters in JSP?

149) How many ways are there to invoke a Servlet object.

150) What is the difference b/w Filter and Servlet?

151) What is syntax for doFilter()?

152) Give me one example for Detached state of an object in HB?

153) What is the implementation class of SessionFactory?

LocalSessionFactoryBean

154) How do you configure one to many and many to many for an single Hb application?

155) What is Bi-directional and Uni-directional in HB?

inverse=”true”-àmeans bi-directional association.

Inverse=”false”àmeans uni -directional assoiciation

156) How to do Pagination?

157) Signature of “validate()”?

Public ActionErrors validator(ActionMapping am, HttpServletRequest req)

158) Write the code for CallableStatement?

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how we do configure spring security in your project?

<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-security-core</artifactId>

<version>${spring.security.core.version}</version>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-security-web</artifactId>

<version>${spring.security.core.version}</version>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-security-config</artifactId>

<version>${spring.security.core.version}</version>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-security-taglibs</artifactId>

<version>${spring.security.core.version}</version>

</dependency>

how we do configure spring with mongoDB in your project?

<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-data-mongodb</artifactId>

<version>${spring.data.mongodb.version}</version>

<scope>compile</scope>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>

<artifactId>mongo-java-driver</artifactId>

<version>${mongodb.driver.version}</version>

<scope>compile</scope>

</dependency>

how we do configure JUnit testing dependencies in your project (Spring with maven)?

<groupId>junit</groupId>

<artifactId>junit</artifactId>

<version>${junit.version}</version>

</dependency>

how we do configure Java Mail API dependencies in your project (Spring with maven)?

<groupId>javax.mail</groupId>

</dependency>

how we do configure log4j dependencies in your project (Spring with maven)?

<version>${log4j.version}</version>

<scope>compile</scope>

</dependency>

how we do configure RESTFul dependencies in your project (Spring with maven)?

<groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>

<artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>

</dependency>

how we do configure Rest-Assured dependencies in your project (Spring with maven)?

Rest-Assured is an open-source Java Domain-Specific Language (DSL). DSL for simplifying testing

of REST based services built on top of HTTP Builder. It supports POST, GET, PUT, DELETE,

OPTIONS, PATCH and HEAD requests and can be used to validate and verify the response of these

requests.

<groupId>com.jayway.restassured</groupId>

<artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>

</dependency>

how we do configure JSON dependencies in your project (Spring with maven)?

<!-- Data Mapper package is a high-performance data binding package built

on Jackson JSON processor -->

<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>

<artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>

<version>${jackson.version}</version>

<scope>compile</scope>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>

<artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>

<version>${jackson.version}</version>

<scope>compile</scope>

</dependency>

<groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>

<artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>

</dependency>

</dependency>

how we do configure Spring-Boot dependencies in your project (Spring with maven)?

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>

<version>1.5.8.RELEASE</version>

</parent>

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-mail</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-redis</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-cache</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>

</dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>

</dependency>

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159) REST Vs SOAP

REST(REpresentational State Transfer)
REST is an architectural style. It doesn’t define so many standards like SOAP.

REST is for exposing Public APIs (i.e. Facebook API, Google Maps API) over the internet to handle

CRUD operations on data.

REST is focused on accessing named resources through a single consistent interface.

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
SOAP brings its own protocol and focuses on exposing pieces of application logic (not data) as

services. SOAP exposes operations. SOAP is focused on accessing named operations, each operation implement some business logic. Though SOAP is commonly referred to as web services this is

misnomer. SOAP has a very little if anything to do with the Web. REST provides true Web services

based on URIs and HTTP.

Why REST?

1) Since REST uses standard HTTP it is much simpler in just about every way.

2) REST is easier to implement, requires less bandwidth and resources.

3) REST permits many different data formats whereas SOAP only permits XML.

4) REST allows better support for browser clients due to its support for JSON.

5) REST has better performance and scalability.

6) REST reads can be cached, SOAP based reads cannot be cached.

7) If security is not a major concern and we have limited resources. Or we want to create an API that

will be easily used by other developers publicly then we should go with REST.

8) If we need Stateless CRUD operations then go with REST.

9) REST is commonly used in social media, web chat, mobile services and Public APIs like Google

Maps.

10) RESTful service return various MediaTypes for the same resource, depending on the

request header parameter "Accept" as application/xml or application/json for POST .

11) REST services are meant to be called by the client-side application and not the end user directly.

12) REST comes from State Transfer. You transfer the state around instead of having the server

store it, this makes REST services scalable.

Why SOAP?

1) SOAP is not very easy to implement and requires more bandwidth and resources.

2) SOAP message request is processed slower as compared to REST and it does not use web caching mechanism.

3) WS-Security: While SOAP supports SSL (just like REST) it also supports WS-Security which

adds some enterprise security features.

4) WS-AtomicTransaction: Need ACID Transactions over a service, you’re going to need SOAP.

5) WS-ReliableMessaging: If your application needs Asynchronous processing and a guaranteed leve

l of reliability and security. Rest doesn’t have a standard messaging system and expects clients to

deal with communication failures by retrying.

6) If the security is a major concern and the resources are not limited then we should use SOAP

web services. Like if we are creating a web service for payment gateways, financial and

telecommunication related work then we should go with SOAP as here high security is needed.

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160)@Consumes and @Produces to Customize Requests and Responses

The information sent to a resource and then passed back to the client is specified as a MIME

media type in the headers of an HTTP request or response. You can specify which MIME

media types of representations a resource can respond to or produce by using the following

annotations:

javax.ws.rs.Consumes

javax.ws.rs.Produces

By default, a resource class can respond to and produce all MIME media types of representations

specified in the HTTP request and response headers.

The @Produces Annotation

The @Produces annotation is used to specify the MIME media types or representations a resource can produce and send back to the client. If @Produces is applied at the class level, all the methods in a resource can produce the specified MIME types by default. If applied at the method level, the

annotation overrides any @Produces annotations applied at the class level.

If no methods in a resource are able to produce the MIME type in a client request, the JAX-RS

runtime sends back an HTTP “406 Not Acceptable” error.

The value of @Produces is an array of String of MIME types. For example:

@Produces({"image/jpeg,image/png"})

The following example shows how to apply @Produces at both the class and method levels:

@Path("/myResource")

@Produces("text/plain")

public class SomeResource {

@GET

public String doGetAsPlainText() {

...

}

@GET

@Produces("text/html")

public String doGetAsHtml() {

...

}

The doGetAsPlainText method defaults to the MIME media type of the @Produces annotation at the

class level. The doGetAsHtml method’s @Produces annotation overrides the class-level @Produces

setting and specifies that the method can produce HTML rather than plain text.

If a resource class is capable of producing more than one MIME media type, the resource method

chosen will correspond to the most acceptable media type as declared by the client. More specifically, the Accept header of the HTTP request declares what is most acceptable.

For example, if the Accept header is Accept: text/plain, the doGetAsPlainText method will be

invoked. Alternatively, if the Accept header is Accept: text/plain;q=0.9, text/html, which declares

that the client can accept media types of text/plain and text/html but prefers the latter, the doGetAsHtml method will be invoked.

More than one media type may be declared in the same @Produces declaration. The following code

example shows how this is done:

@Produces({"application/xml", "application/json"})

public String doGetAsXmlOrJson() {

...

}

The doGetAsXmlOrJson method will get invoked if either of the media types application/xml and application/json is acceptable. If both are equally acceptable, the former

will be chosen because it occurs first. The preceding examples refer explicitly to MIME media types

for clarity. It is possible to refer to constant values, which may reduce typographical errors.

The @Consumes Annotation

The @Consumes annotation is used to specify which MIME media types of representations a resource can accept, or consume, from the client. If @Consumes is applied at the class level, all the response

methods accept the specified MIME types by default. If applied at the method level, @Consumes

overrides any @Consumes annotations applied at the class level.

If a resource is unable to consume the MIME type of a client request, the JAX-RS runtime sends back

an HTTP 415 (“Unsupported Media Type”) error.

The value of @Consumes is an array of String of acceptable MIME types. For example:

@Consumes({"text/plain,text/html"})

The following example shows how to apply @Consumes at both the class and method levels:

@Path("/myResource")

@Consumes("multipart/related")

public class SomeResource {

@POST

public String doPost(MimeMultipart mimeMultipartData) {

...

}

@POST

@Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

public String doPost2(FormURLEncodedProperties formData) {

...

}

The doPost method defaults to the MIME media type of the @Consumes annotation at the
class level. The doPost2 method overrides the class level @Consumes annotation to specify that it
can accept

URL-encoded form data.

If no resource methods can respond to the requested MIME type, an HTTP 415
(“Unsupported Media

Type”) error is returned to the client.

The HelloWorld example discussed previously in this section can be modified to set the message by using @Consumes, as shown in the following code example:

@POST

@Consumes("text/plain")

public void postClichedMessage(String message) {

// Store the message

}

In this example, the Java method will consume representations identified by the MIME media type

text/plain. Note that the resource method returns void. This means that no representation is returned

and that a response with a status code of HTTP 204 (“No Content”) will be returned.

161) Spring Features

Spring is the most popular application development framework for enterprise Java. Millions of

developers around the world use Spring Framework to create high performing, easily testable, and

reusable code.

Spring framework is an open source Java platform. It was initially written by Rod Johnson and was

first released under the Apache 2.0 license in June 2003.

Spring is lightweight when it comes to size and transparency. The basic version of Spring framework

is around 2MB.

The core features of the Spring Framework can be used in developing any Java application, but there

are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform. Spring framework targets

to make J2EE development easier to use and promotes good programming practices by enabling a

POJO-based programming model.

162) Benefits of Using the Spring Framework

Following is the list of few of the great benefits of using Spring Framework −

1) Spring enables developers to develop enterprise-class applications using POJOs. The benefit of

using only POJOs is that you do not need an EJB container product such as an application server

but you have the option of using only a robust servlet container such as Tomcat or some commercial

product.

2) Spring is organized in a modular fashion. Even though the number of packages and classes are

substantial, you have to worry only about the ones you need and ignore the rest.

3) Spring does not reinvent the wheel, instead it truly makes use of some of the existing technologies

like several ORM frameworks, logging frameworks, JEE, Quartz and JDK timers, and other view technologies.

4) Testing an application written with Spring is simple because environment-dependent code is

moved into this framework. Furthermore, by using JavaBeanstyle POJOs, it becomes easier to use dependency injection for injecting test data.

5) Spring's web framework is a well-designed web MVC framework, which provides a great

alternative to web frameworks such as Struts or other over-engineered or less popular web frameworks.

6) Spring provides a convenient API to translate technology-specific exceptions (thrown by JDBC, Hibernate, or JDO, for example) into consistent, unchecked exceptions.

7) Spring has Lightweight IoC containers tend to be lightweight, especially when compared to EJB containers, for example. This is beneficial for developing and deploying applications on

computers with limited memory and CPU resources.

8) Spring provides a consistent transaction management interface that can scale down to a local

transaction (using a single database, for example) and scale up to global transactions (using JTA, for example).

9) Dependency Injection (DI)

The technology that Spring is most identified with is the Dependency Injection (DI) flavor of

Inversion of Control. The Inversion of Control (IoC) is a general concept, and it can be expressed

in many different ways. Dependency Injection is merely one concrete example of Inversion of

Control.

When writing a complex Java application, application classes should be as independent as possible

of other Java classes to increase the possibility to reuse these classes and to test them independently

of other classes while unit testing.

Dependency injection can happen in the way of passing parameters to the constructor or by

post-construction using setter methods. As Dependency Injection is the heart of Spring Framework,

we will explain this concept in a separate chapter with relevant example.

10) Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)

One of the key components of Spring is the Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) framework. The

functions that span multiple points of an application are called cross-cutting concerns and these

cross-cutting concerns are conceptually separate from the application's business logic. There are

various common good examples of aspects including logging, declarative transactions, security,

caching, etc.

The key unit of modularity in OOP is the class, whereas in AOP the unit of modularity is the aspect.

DI helps you decouple your application objects from each other, while AOP helps you decouple

cross-cutting concerns from the objects that they affect.

The AOP module of Spring Framework provides an aspect-oriented programming implementation

allowing you to define method-interceptors and pointcuts to cleanly decouple code that implements functionality that should be separated.

163) What is Spring Boot?

Spring Boot is a Framework from “The Spring Team” to ease the bootstrapping and development of

new Spring Applications.

It provides defaults for code and annotation configuration to quick start new Spring projects within

no time. It follows “Opinionated Defaults Configuration” Approach to avoid lot of boilerplate code

and configuration to improve Development, Unit Test and Integration Test Process.

What is NOT Spring Boot?

Spring Boot Framework is not implemented from the scratch by The Spring Team, rather than

implemented on top of existing Spring Framework (Spring IO Platform).

It is not used for solving any new problems. It is used to solve same problems like Spring Framework.

Why Spring Boot?

To ease the Java-based applications Development, Unit Test and Integration Test Process.

To reduce Development, Unit Test and Integration Test time by providing some defaults.

To increase Productivity.

Don’t worry about what is “Opinionated Defaults Configuration” Approach at this stage. We will

explain this in detail with some examples in coming posts.

Advantages of Spring Boot:

It is very easy to develop Spring Based applications with Java or Groovy.

It reduces lots of development time and increases productivity.

It avoids writing lots of boilerplate Code, Annotations and XML Configuration.

It is very easy to integrate Spring Boot Application with its Spring Ecosystem like Spring JDBC,

Spring ORM, Spring Data, Spring Security etc.

It follows “Opinionated Defaults Configuration” Approach to reduce Developer effort

It provides Embedded HTTP servers like Tomcat, Jetty etc. to develop and test our web applications

very easily.

It provides CLI (Command Line Interface) tool to develop and test Spring Boot(Java or Groovy) Applications from command prompt very easily and quickly.

It provides lots of plugins to develop and test Spring Boot Applications very easily using

Build Tools like Maven and Gradle

It provides lots of plugins to work with embedded and in-memory Databases very easily.

164) Difference between Procedure and Function

Procedure	Function
1) Used mainly to a execute certain process. 2) Cannot call in SELECT statement. 3 Use OUT parameter to return the value 4) It is not mandatory to return the value. 5) RETURN will simply exit the control from subprogram. 6) Return datatype will not be specified at the time of creation.	1) Used mainly to perform some calculation. 2) A Function that contains no DML statements can be called in SELECT statement. 3) Use RETURN to return the value 4) It is mandatory to return the value. 5) RETURN will exit the control from subprogram and also returns the value. 6) Return datatype is mandatory at the time .

165) Explain the JSP life-cycle methods?

1. Page translation: The page is parsed & a Java file containing the corresponding servlet is

created.

2. Page compilation: The Java file is compiled.

3. Load class: The compiled class is loaded.

4 .Create instance: An instance of the servlet is created.

5. Call jspInit(): This method is called before any other

method to allow initialization.

6. Call _jspService(): This method is called for each request. (can’t be overridden)

7. Call jspDestroy(): The container calls this when it decides take the instance out of service.

It is the last method called n the servlet instance.

166) What are differences b/w Servlets & Jsp?

Servlets:

i) Servlets requires Recompilation and Reloading when we do modifications in a Servlet.

(some servers)

ii) Every Servlet must be configured in “web.xml”.

iii) Servlets is providing less amount of implicit objects support.

iv) Since it consists both HTML & bussiness logic hence modification in one logic may disturbs

the other logic.

v) No implicit Exception Handling support.

vi) Since Servlets requires strong Java knowledge hence non-java programmers shows no interest.

vii) Keeping HTML code in Servlets is quite complex.

JSP:

i) No need of Recompilation & Reloading when we do modifications in a JSP page.

ii) We need not to Configure a JSP in a “web.xml”.

iii) Jsp is providing huge amount of Implicit Objects support.

iv) Since Html & Java code are separated hence no disturbance while changing logic.

v) Jsp is providing implicit XML Exception Handling support.

vi) Jsp is easy to learn & implement since it is tags based.

vii) Jsp allows to develop custom tags.

viii) Jsp gives JSTL support.

(JSP Standard Tag Library--> It provides more tags that will help to develop a JSP

without using Java code).

ix) Jsp gives all benefits of Servlets.

167) What are the functions of service()?

protected void service(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)

throws ServletException, java.io.IOException

Receives standard HTTP requests from the public service method and dispatches them to the doXXX methods defined in this class. This method is an HTTP-specific version of the

public void service(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res)

throws ServletException, java.io.IOException

Dispatches client requests to the protected service method.

There's no need to override this method.

168) How do we get the container related information?

By using “ServletContext” object. we can create ServletContext object in two ways.

First way :

public class TestServlet extends HttpServlet

{

public void service(HttpServletRequest req ,HttpServletResponse response) throws

ServletException, IOException

{

ServletConfig cg=getServletConfig();

ServletContext sc=cg.getServletContext();

====== usage of ServletContext object here ====

}

Second way :

public class TestServlet extends HttpServlet

{

public void service(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException ,IOException

{

ServletConfig sc=getServletContext();

====== usage of ServletContext object here ====

}

169) What are the functions of a FilterServlet?

FilterServlet traps all the requests & responses.

Container creates the Filter object when the web application is deployed.

170) Which JSP tag is used to display error validation?

In Source page:

<%@page errorPage=”error-page-name.jsp”>

In Error page:

<%@page isErrorPage=”true”>

171) How to compile a JSP page?

The maven jspc plugin ( http://mojo.codehaus.org/jspc-maven-plugin/ ) can be used to precompile

your jsps. It does this by compiling the jsps in a project and inserting servlet and servlet mapping

entries into the final web.xml file, which gets packaged into the project's war file.

To use it, you need references to jspc-maven-plugin and maven-war-plugin in your project's pom.xml.

The precompiling takes place during the "compile" phase of the maven build (default) lifecycle.

The jspc maven plugin writes the servlet and servlet mappings to a target/jspweb.xml file, and the

maven war plugin copies this file and uses it in the war file that it builds.

<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>

<artifactId>jspc-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<goals>

<goal>compile</goal>

</goals>

</execution>

</executions>

</plugin>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>

<webXml>${basedir}/target/jspweb.xml</webXml> </configuration>

</plugin>

172) How do you forward Servlet1 request to Servlet2?

ServletContext sc=getServletContext();

RequestDispatcher rd =sc.getRequestDispatcher(“/s2url”); //” or html file name”

rd.forward(req,resp); (or) rd.include(req,resp);

173) How do you make the variables applicable to the whole application in JSP?

JSP declarations are used to declare class variables and methods (both instance and static) in a JSP page. These declations will be placed directly at class level in the generated servlet and these are available to the entire JSP.

174) What are ServletListeners?

Source obj	Event	Listener	EventHandling methods (public void
ServletRequest ServletContext HttpSession	ServletRequestEvent(sre) ServletContextEvent(sce) HttpSessionEvent (hse)	ServletRequestListener ServletContextListener HttpSessionListener	requestInitialized(sre) requestDestroyed(sre) contextInitialized(sce) contextDestroyed(sce) sessionCreated(hse) sessionDestroyed(hse)

From Servlet 2.4 onwards, EventHandling is allowed on special objects of webapplication

like ServletContext, ServletRequest, HttpSession objects.

ServletRequest:

By doing EventHandling on ServletRequest object, we can keep track of

each “request” object creation time & destruction time. Based on this, we can

find out “request processing time”.

HttpSession:

By performing EventHandling on HttpSession object, we can find out

“session” object creation time & destruction time. Based on this, we can

know the time taken by the each user to work with “session”.

Procedure to configure Listeners with webapplication

1) Develop a Java class implementing appropriate “Listener”

& place it in WEB-INF/classes folder.

2) Configure that Listener class name in web.xml by using <listener-class>

175) What is a Session?

Session: It is a set of related & continuous requests given by a client to a web application.

Ex: SignIn to SignOut in any Mail Systems Application like Gmail, Ymail etc…

176) How do you maintain client data at client side?

177) Difference b/w GET and POST methods?

GET

POST

1) It is a default Http request method

2) Query string is visible in Browser

address bar hence no data Secrecy.

3) It allows to send limited amount of

data(1kb)

4) It is not suitable for File uploading.

5) It is not suitable for sending Enscripted data.

6) It shows Idempotent behaviour.

7) Use either doGet(-,-) or service(-,-)

to process this.

Not a default method.

It gives data Secrecy.

Unlimited amount of data.

Suitable for File uploading.

Suitable.

Non-Idempotent.

Use either doPost(-,-) or service(-,-)

178) What is Idempotent behavior?

It is the behavior like processing the multiple same requests from the same web page.

179) How the POST is not having Idempotent behavoiur?

180) What are the different Scopes in JSP?

request, page, session, application

181) How to disable “Cache” ?

<% resp.setHeader(“cache-control”, ”no-cache”);%>

(<meta http-equiv=”cache-control” content=”no-cache”>

<%resp.setHeader(“pragma”,”no-cache”);%> //http1.0

182) What is default Scope in JSP?

page

183) How to configure a JavaBean in JSP?

<jsp:useBean>

184) How the JSP code is converting into Servlet code?

JSP parser/Engine/compiler

185) What is “useBean”?

JSP standard tag to configure a Java Bean in JSP.

186) What is Servlet Chaining?

Servlet Chaining is a method of processing the request using multiple servlets as a chain.

187) What is Servlet life-cycle?

1. If an instance of the servlet does not exist, the Web container

a. Loads the servlet class.

b. Creates an instance of the servlet class.

c. Initializes the servlet instance by calling the init method.

2. Invokes the service method, passing a request and response object.

3. If the container needs to remove the servlet, it finalizes the servlet by calling

the servlet's destroy method.

188) What are the differences b/w Servlet and JSP?

For every time we modifing the servlet , we should re-deploy the servlet.

Its very big headache.

Manually written servlets are somewhat faster than JSPs.

JSP:

i) No need of Recompilation & Reloading when we do modifications in a JSP page.

ii) We need not to Configure a JSP in a “web.xml”.

iii) It is providing huge amount of Implicit Objects support.

iv) Since Html & Java code are separated hence no disturbance while changing logic.

v) It is providing implicit XML Exception Handling support.

189) What is “isThreadSafe=true” in JSP?

It makes the equivalent servlet as thread safe.

The “JSP equivalent Servlet” will implement SingleTreadModel(I) implicitely.

190) What is custom Servlet?

The servlet that extending pre-defined Servlet (ie HttpServlet/GenericServlet/Servlet)

191) What Is a Custom Tag?
A custom tag is a user-defined JSP language element. When a JSP page containing a custom tag

is translated into a servlet, the tag is converted to operations on a tag handler. The web container

then invokes those operations when the JSP page’s servlet is executed.

Custom tags have a rich set of features. They can

• Be customized by means of attributes passed from the calling page.

• Pass variables back to the calling page.

• Access all the objects available to JSP pages.

• Communicate with each other. You can create and initialize a JavaBeans component, create a public EL(Expression Language) variable that refers to that bean in one tag, and then use the bean in

another tag.

• Be nested within one another and communicate by means of private variables.

Table 9-2 Tag Handler Methods

Tag Type	Interface	Methods
Basic	Tag	doStartTag, doEndTag
Attributes	Tag	doStartTag, doEndTag, setAttribute1,...,N, release
Body	Tag	doStartTag, doEndTag, release
Body, iterative evaluation	IterationTag	doStartTag, doAfterBody, doEndTag, release
Body, manipulation	BodyTag	doStartTag, doEndTag, release, doInitBody, doAfterBody

192) Is the Servlet thread-Safe by default?

No, the servlet by default is not Thread safe. To achieve this, the servlet must implements

SingleThreadModel interface OR synchronize the service().

193) Which JSP methods can be overridden?

jspInit() & jspDestroy().

194) What are the common files when 5 or more projects are developed using Hibernate ?

Hibernate-configuration file

195) Can I call a procedure from a HB? How?

Yes.

1)In hibernate main file, we have to set getNamedQuery("-") after openSession() method.

Query query = session.getNamedQuery("callStockStoreProcedure");

query .setParameter("stockCode", "7277");

List result = query.list();

for(int i=0; i<result.size(); i++){

Stock stock = (Stock)result.get(i);

System.out.println(stock.getStockCode());

}

2) In hibernate mapping file we have to set <sql-query> after </class>

<sql-query name="callStockStoreProcedure" callable="true">

{ call get_stockdetails() }

</sql-query>

196) Can I use a big query in HB?

Yes.

Read this link https://www.cdata.com/kb/tech/bigquery-jdbc-hibernate.rst

197) Tell me few Hibernate interfaces?

i) Configuration(c),

ii) SessionFactory,

iii) Session,

iv) Transaction,

v) Query

198) How do you create “Criteria”?(to do select operations.)

Criteria criteria=session.createCriteria(EmpBean.class);

// select * from Employee where eid between 100 and 200 and firstname in (“raja”,”ramana”));

Condition: 1

criteria=criteria.add(Expression.between(“no”,new Integer(100)),new Integer(200));

Condition: 2

criteria=criteria.add(Expression.in(“fname”,new String []{“raja”,”ramana”} )));

List l=ct.list(); // retrieves more selected records

for(int x=0;x<l.size();x++){

EmpBean emp=(EmpBean) l.get(x);

S.o.p(emp.getNo()+”\t”+emp.getFname()+”\t”+emp.getLname()+”\t”+emp.getEmail());

199) What is Hibernate configuration file?

HB dialect, DB Driver class, Driver class URL, Username, Password.

200) Why the people using frameworks?

201) What is POJO & POJI model programming?

The programming with no api dependent classes/interfaces

202) What is “Caching “ mechanism?

Hibernate has caching mechanism.It means

To minimize n/w round trips.

“Session” is default and

“SessionFactory’ explicitly configured.

203) Do you know “restriction” and “expression”?

Expression.between()

Expression.in()

204) What is Java?

Java is a high-level, object - oriented, platform independent programming language designed for developing

wide range of applications such as web applications, mobile applications, enterprise applications, desktop applications.

It was introduced by sun microsystems in 1995 (now owned by Oracle)

Jave uses a combination of compiler & interpreter to convert code into byte code which can run on any

device with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), making it as high portable.

205) How do you configure “one to many” association in Hibernate?

Example:

==========

Step1) In Parent POJO class,we need a collection property for representing/storing a group of

child objects associated.

//User.java (Parent POJO class)

import java.util.*;

public class User {

private long userId ;

private String firstName ;

private Set phones; // phones is a collection property

// wrtie setXxx(-), getXxx() methods

public String getFirstName() {

return firstName;

}

public void setFirstName(String firstName) {

this.firstName = firstName;

}

public long getUserId() {

return userId;

}

public void setUserId(long userId) {

this.userId = userId;

}

public Set getPhones() {

return phones;

}

public void setPhones(Set phones) {

this.phones=phones;

}

}//class

//PhoneNumber.java (Child POJO class)

public class PhoneNumber

{

private String numberType;

private long phone ;

private long id;

// write setXxx(-) and getXxx() methods

}

Step 2) In the Parent class mapping the collection property with the collection element

(i.e., set,list,map)

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC

"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"

"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd" >

<hibernate-mapping>

//set ---àcollecton element

<key column="UNID"/> //UNID -àforeign key

<one-to-many class="PhoneNumber" />

</set>

</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

Step 3)In main java file

i)add the group of child objects to the collection object

Set s=new HashSet(); //s--àcollection object

s.add(ph1);

s.add(ph2);

ii)Add the collection object to parent object

u1.setPhones(s); //u1 --àparent object

For complete main java file code

==============================

//TestClient (ClentApp)

import org.hibernate.*;

import org.hibernate.cfg.*;

import java.util.*;

public class TestClient {

public static void main(String[] args)

{

try

{

Session ses=new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory().openSession();

Transaction tx = ses.beginTransaction();

User u1=new User();

u1.setUserId(105);

u1.setFirstName("raja1");

PhoneNumber ph1=new PhoneNumber();

ph1.setNumberType("residence");

ph1.setPhone(65538968);

PhoneNumber ph2=new PhoneNumber();

ph2.setNumberType("office");

ph2.setPhone(65538958);

Set s=new HashSet();

s.add(ph1);

s.add(ph2);

// setting PhoneNumber class objs to phones property of User obj

u1.setPhones(s);

//To Insert record

ses.save(u1);

tx.commit();

ses.close();

}//try

catch(Exception e)

{

e.printStackTrace();

}

}//main

}//class

206) What are the uses with Hibernate?

i) It allows to develop DB independent query language like HQL.

ii) It supports POJO/POJI model programming.

iii) Any Java/J2EE can access HB persistence logic.

iv) It supports to call all Procedures & Functions of PL/SQL programming.

v) The result after “SELECT” operation, by default, is “Serializable”.

207) How to connect with DB?

Class.forName(“oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver”);

Connection con=DriverManager.getConnection(“jdbc:oracle:thin:@<IPadress>:1521”,

”orcl”,”scott”,”tiger”);

Statement st=con.createStatement();

// ResultSet rs=st.execute(“select query”); (or)

// int x=st.executeUpdate(“Non-select query”);

208) What is dialect?

Using dialect, Hibernate knows the type of DB & its version to which it will connected.

209) How do you map HB Pojo class with Table?

<hibernate-mapping default-cascade="none" default-access="property" default-lazy="true"

auto-import="true">

<class name="CustomerOrder" table="CustomerOrder" mutable="true" polymorphism="implicit" dynamic-update="false" dynamic-insert="false" select-before-update="false"

optimistic-lock="version">

<composite-id name="orderId" class="OrderId" mapped="false" unsaved-value="undefined">

<key-property name="customerId" column="customer_id" />

<key-property name="orderTime" column="order_time" />

</composite-id>

<property name="orderDescription" unique="false" optimistic-lock="true" lazy="false"

generated="never" />

</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

210)Spring annotations:

For spring to process annotations, add the following lines in your application-context.xml file.<context:annotation-config />

<context:component-scan base-package="...specify your package name..." />

@Service
Annotate all your service classes with @Service. All your business logic should be in Service classes.@Service
public class CompanyServiceImpl implements CompanyService {
...
}
@Repository
Annotate all your DAO classes with @Repository. All your database access logic should be in DAO classes.@Repository
public class CompanyDAOImpl implements CompanyDAO {
...
}
@Component
Annotate your other components (for example REST resource classes) with @Component.@Component
public class ContactResource {
......
}
@Component is a generic stereotype for any Spring-managed component. @Repository, @Service, and @Controller are specializations of @Component for more specific use cases, for example, in the persistence, service, and presentation layers, respectively.

@Component

Other class-level annotations may be considered as identifying a component as well, typically a special kind of component: e.g. the @Repository annotation or AspectJ's @Aspect annotation.

211)org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan

@Target(value={TYPE})
@Repeatable(value=ComponentScans.class)
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Documented

Configures component scanning directives for use with @Configuration classes. Provides support parallel with Spring XML's <context:component-scan> element.

Either basePackageClasses or basePackages (or its alias value) may be specified to define specific packages to scan. If specific packages are not defined, scanning will occur from the package of the class that declares this annotation.

Note that the <context:component-scan> element has an annotation-config attribute; however, this annotation does not. This is because in almost all cases when using @ComponentScan, default annotation config processing (e.g. processing @Autowired and friends) is assumed. Furthermore, when using AnnotationConfigApplicationContext, annotation config processors are always registered, meaning that any attempt to disable them at the @ComponentScan level would be ignored.

212)org.springframework.context.annotation.Scope

@Target(value={TYPE, METHOD})
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Documented

When used as a type-level annotation in conjunction with @Component, @Scope indicates the name of a scope to use for instances of the annotated type.

When used as a method-level annotation in conjunction with @Bean, @Scope indicates the name of a scope to use for the instance returned from the method.

NOTE: @Scope annotations are only introspected on the concrete bean class (for annotated components) or the factory method (for @Bean methods). In contrast to XML bean definitions, there is no notion of bean definition inheritance, and inheritance hierarchies at the class level are irrelevant for metadata purposes.

In this context, scope means the lifecycle of an instance, such as singleton, prototype, and so forth. Scopes provided out of the box in Spring may be referred to using the SCOPE_* constants available in the ConfigurableBeanFactory and WebApplicationContext interfaces.

@Scope is a Spring-managed components in general, the default and most common scope for autodetected components is singleton. To change this default behavior, use @Scope spring annotation.

@Component
@Scope("request")
public class ContactResource {
...
}

Similarly, you can annotate your component with @Scope("prototype") for beans with prototype scopes.

To register additional custom scopes, see CustomScopeConfigurer.

213)Spring MVC Annotations

@Controller

Annotate your controller classes with @Controller.

@Controller
public class CompanyController {
...
}

@RequestMapping

@RequestMapping spring annotation is used to map URLs onto an entire class or a particular handler method. Typically the class-level annotation maps a specific request path (or path pattern) onto a form controller, with additional method-level annotations narrowing the primary mapping.

org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping

@Target(value={METHOD, TYPE})

@Mapping
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Documented

Annotation for mapping web requests onto methods in request-handling classes with flexible method signatures.

Both Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux support this annotation through a RequestMappingHandlerMapping and RequestMappingHandlerAdapter in their respective modules and package structure. For the exact list of supported handler method arguments and return types in each, please use the reference documentation links below:

Spring MVC Method Arguments and Return Values
Spring WebFlux Method Arguments and Return Values

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/company")
public class CompanyController {

  @Autowired
  private CompanyService companyService;
...
}

@PathVariable

@PathVariable spring annotation is used on a method argument to bind it to the value of a URI template variable. In our example below, a request path of /company/sample will bind companyName variable with 'sample' value.

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/company")
public class CompanyController {

  @Autowired
  private CompanyService companyService;

  @RequestMapping("{companyName}")
  public String getCompany(Map<String, Object> map, 
  			@PathVariable String companyName) {
    Company company = companyService.findByName(companyName);
    map.put("company", company);
    return "company";
  }
...
}

@RequestParam

@RequestParam annotation is used to bind request parameters to method variables.

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/company")
public class CompanyController {

  @Autowired
  private CompanyService companyService;

  @RequestMapping("/companyList")
  public String listCompanies(Map<String, Object> map, 
  			@RequestParam int pageNum) {
    map.put("pageNum", pageNum);
    map.put("companyList", companyService.listCompanies(pageNum));
    return "companyList";
  }
...
}

Similarly, you can use spring annotation @RequestHeader to bind request headers.

@ModelAttribute

An @ModelAttribute on a method argument indicates the argument should be retrieved from the model. If not present in the model, the argument should be instantiated first and then added to the model. Once present in the model, the argument's fields should be populated from all request parameters that have matching names. This is known as data binding in Spring MVC, a very useful mechanism that saves you from having to parse each form field individually.

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/company")
public class CompanyController {

  @Autowired
  private CompanyService companyService;

  @RequestMapping("/add")
  public String saveNewCompany(@ModelAttribute Company company) {
    companyService.add(company);
    return "redirect:" + company.getName();
  }
...
}

@SessionAttributes

@SessionAttributes spring annotation declares session attributes. This will typically list the names of model attributes which should be transparently stored in the session, serving as form-backing beans between subsequent requests.

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/company")
@SessionAttributes("company")
public class CompanyController {

  @Autowired
  private CompanyService companyService;
...
}

@SessionAttribute works as follows:

@SessionAttribute is initialized when you put the corresponding attribute into model (either explicitly or using @ModelAttribute-annotated method).
@SessionAttribute is updated by the data from HTTP parameters when controller method with the corresponding model attribute in its signature is invoked.
@SessionAttributes are cleared when you call setComplete() on SessionStatus object passed into controller method as an argument.

The following listing illustrate these concepts. It is also an example for pre-populating Model objects.

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/owners/{ownerId}/pets/{petId}/edit")
@SessionAttributes("pet")
public class EditPetForm {

	@ModelAttribute("types")
	
	public Collection<PetType> populatePetTypes() {
		return this.clinic.getPetTypes();
	}
	
	@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
	public String processSubmit(@ModelAttribute("pet") Pet pet, 
			BindingResult result, SessionStatus status) {
		new PetValidator().validate(pet, result);
		if (result.hasErrors()) {
			return "petForm";
		}else {
			this.clinic.storePet(pet);
			status.setComplete();
			return "redirect:owner.do?ownerId=" 
				+ pet.getOwner().getId();
		}
	}
}

Spring Security Annotations

@PreAuthorize

@PreAuthorize annotation is used to authorize or deny a functionality in Spring Security . In our example below, only a user with Admin role has the access to delete a contact.

  @Transactional
  @PreAuthorize("hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN')")
  public void removeContact(Integer id) {
    contactDAO.removeContact(id);
  }

215)org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController

@Target(value={TYPE})
@Controller
@ResponseBody
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Documented

A convenience annotation that is itself annotated with @Controller and @ResponseBody.

Types that carry this annotation are treated as controllers where @RequestMapping methods assume @ResponseBody semantics by default.

NOTE: @RestController is processed if an appropriate HandlerMapping-HandlerAdapter pair is configured such as the RequestMappingHandlerMapping-RequestMappingHandlerAdapter pair which are the default in the MVC Java config and the MVC namespace.

216)...Controller

@Target(value={TYPE})
@Component
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Documented

Indicates that an annotated class is a "Controller" (e.g. a web controller).

This annotation serves as a specialization of @Component, allowing for implementation classes to be autodetected through classpath scanning. It is typically used in combination with annotated handler methods based on the org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping annotation.

217)org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication

@Target(value={TYPE})
@SpringBootConfiguration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@ComponentScan(excludeFilters={@Filter(type=CUSTOM, classes={TypeExcludeFilter.class}), @Filter(type=CUSTOM, classes={AutoConfigurationExcludeFilter.class})})
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Inherited

Indicates a configuration class that declares one or more @Bean methods and also triggers auto-configuration and component scanning. It's a combination of three annotations:
@Configuration, @EnableAutoConfiguration and @ComponentScan.

218)org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.domain.EntityScan

@Target(value={TYPE})
@Import(value={Registrar.class})
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Documented

Configures the base packages used by auto-configuration when scanning for entity classes.

Using @EntityScan will cause auto-configuration to:

Set the packages scanned for JPA entities.
Set the packages used with Neo4J's SessionFactory.
Set the initial entity set used with Spring Data MongoDB, Cassandra and Couchbase mapping contexts.

One of basePackageClasses(), basePackages() or its alias value() may be specified to define specific packages to scan. If specific packages are not defined scanning will occur from the package of the class with this annotation.

219)org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration

@Target(value={TYPE})
@AutoConfigurationPackage
@Import(value={AutoConfigurationImportSelector.class})
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Inherited

Enable auto-configuration of the Spring Application Context, attempting to guess and configure beans that you are likely to need. Auto-configuration classes are usually applied based on your classpath and what beans you have defined. For example, if you have tomcat-embedded.jar on your classpath you are likely to want a TomcatServletWebServerFactory (unless you have defined your own ServletWebServerFactory bean).

When using SpringBootApplication, the auto-configuration of the context is automatically enabled and adding this annotation has therefore no additional effect.

Auto-configuration tries to be as intelligent as possible and will back-away as you define more of your own configuration. You can always manually exclude() any configuration that you never want to apply (use excludeName() if you don't have access to them). You can also exclude them via the spring.autoconfigure.exclude property. Auto-configuration is always applied after user-defined beans have been registered.

The package of the class that is annotated with @EnableAutoConfiguration, usually via @SpringBootApplication, has specific significance and is often used as a 'default'. For example, it will be used when scanning for @Entity classes. It is generally recommended that you place @EnableAutoConfiguration (if you're not using @SpringBootApplication) in a root package so that all sub-packages and classes can be searched.

Auto-configuration classes are regular Spring Configuration beans. They are located using the SpringFactoriesLoader mechanism (keyed against this class). Generally auto-configuration beans are @Conditional beans (most often using @ConditionalOnClass and @ConditionalOnMissingBean annotations).

220)org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.CrossOrigin

@Target(value={METHOD, TYPE})
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Documented

Annotation for permitting cross-origin requests on specific handler classes and/or handler methods. Processed if an appropriate HandlerMapping is configured.

Both Spring Web MVC and Spring WebFlux support this annotation through the RequestMappingHandlerMapping in their respective modules. The values from each type and method level pair of annotations are added to a CorsConfiguration and then default values are applied via CorsConfiguration.applyPermitDefaultValues().

The rules for combining global and local configuration are generally additive -- e.g. all global and all local origins. For those attributes where only a single value can be accepted such as allowCredentials and maxAge, the local overrides the global value. See CorsConfiguration.combine(CorsConfiguration) for more details.

Sunday, 24 December 2023

Best Interviews Questions for Java

✅ There are 6 popular ways to create an object in Java:

1) Using the new Keyword

2) Using Factory Method

3) Using Reflection API

4) Using Object Deserialization

5) Using Dependency Injection (DI) Frameworks

6) Using clone() Method

✅ Summary Table:

2) What are the differences b/w HashMap and HashSet?

1.Key Differences

2.How They Work Internally

Stores elements as (Key, Value) pairs. Uses hashing to determine the bucket index for a key. If multiple keys map to the same bucket (hash collision), it uses LinkedList (before Java 8) or Balanced Tree (Red-Black Tree) (Java 8+) for efficient retrieval.

Example:

HashMap<Integer, String> map = new HashMap<>();

map.put(1, "Apple");

map.put(2, "Banana");

map.put(3, "Cherry");

System.out.println(map.get(2)); // Output: Banana

3.When to Use What?

Code Example for wait()

Code Example for sleep()

When to Use What?

🔹 Guidelines to Create an Immutable Class in Java

Why Create Immutable Classes?

Differences Between String, StringBuffer, and StringBuilder

String Example (Immutable)

When to Use What?

Collection Framework Overview

1️⃣ Core Interfaces in Java Collections

🔹 When to Use List, Set, Queue, or Map?

🔹 List, Set, Queue, and Map – Practical Use Cases

1️⃣ List (Ordered, Allows Duplicates)

2️⃣.Set (Unique, Unordered)

3️⃣.Queue (FIFO - First In, First Out)

4️⃣.Map (Key-Value Pairs)

Collections API Algorithms (Sorting, Searching, Shuffling)

1️⃣ Sorting

2️⃣ Searching (Binary Search)

3️⃣ Shuffling

🔹 Collection Classes Used in My Spring Boot Project

🔹 Practical Real-World Applications in Spring Boot

1️⃣ Using List for Database Handling

2️⃣ Using Set for Unique Data (User Roles)

3️⃣ Using Queue for Task Scheduling

4️⃣ Using Map for Fast Lookups (User Cache)

5️⃣ Using ConcurrentHashMap for Thread-Safe Caching

🔹 Summary

🚀 Final Thoughts

1. Creational Design Patterns

(a) Singleton Pattern

🔰 Types of Built-in Class Loaders

1. Bootstrap Class Loader

2. Extension (Platform) Class Loader

3. System (Application) Class Loader

🧩 Class Loader Hierarchy

✅ Example:

🔧 What is a Custom Class Loader?

🏗️ Creating a Custom Class Loader

✅ Minimal Example:

🧪 Using the Custom Class Loader

⚙️ Key Methods in ClassLoader

🔐 When to Use Custom Class Loaders

⚠️ Important Notes

@Service

@Repository

@Component

@Controller

@RequestMapping

@PathVariable

@RequestParam

@ModelAttribute

@SessionAttributes

Spring Security Annotations

@PreAuthorize

215)org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController

1) Using the `new` Keyword

6) Using `clone()` Method

Stores elements as `(Key, Value)` pairs.

Uses hashing to determine the bucket index for a key.

If multiple keys map to the same bucket (hash collision), it uses LinkedList (before Java 8) or Balanced Tree (Red-Black Tree) (Java 8+) for efficient retrieval.

Code Example for `wait()`

Code Example for `sleep()`

Differences Between `String`, `StringBuffer`, and `StringBuilder`

1️⃣ Using `List` for Database Handling

2️⃣ Using `Set` for Unique Data (User Roles)

3️⃣ Using `Queue` for Task Scheduling

4️⃣ Using `Map` for Fast Lookups (User Cache)

5️⃣ Using `ConcurrentHashMap` for Thread-Safe Caching

⚙️ Key Methods in `ClassLoader`