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150 Java Interview Questions

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Last updated Jan. 6, 2019

Our Java
interview
questions
and
answers
collection is
all about
different
types of
questions
that can be used in a Java interview, in order
for the employer to test your skills in Java
and object-oriented programming in general.

In the following sections we will discuss

about object-oriented programming and its
characteristics, general questions regarding
Java and its functionality, collections in Java,
garbage collectors, exception handling, Java
applets, Swing, JDBC, Remote Method
Invocation (RMI), Servlets and JSP.

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Table Of Contents
Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
General Questions about Java
Java Threads
Java Collections
Garbage Collectors
Exception Handling
Java Applets
Swing
JDBC
Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
Servlets
JSP
Object Oriented
Programming (OOP)
1. What is Java?

Java is a computer programming language

that is concurrent, class-based and object-
oriented. The advantages of object oriented
software development are shown below:

Modular development of code, which

leads to easy maintenance and
modification.
Reusability of code.
Improved reliability and flexibility of code.
Increased understanding of code.

2. What are the concepts of OOP?

Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

includes:

Abstraction
Encapsulation
Polymorphism
Inheritance
Predefined types must be objects
User defined types must be objects
Operations must be performed by sending
messages to objects

3. Mention some features of Java

Some of the features which play important

role in the popularity of java are as follows:

Object-Oriented
Platform independent
High Performance
Multithreaded
Portable
Secure

4. Is Java 100% Object-oriented?

Not 100%. Java doesn’t satisfy all the OOP
conditions (predefined types must be
objects) because it uses eight primitive data
types(Boolean, byte, char, int, float, double,
long, short) which are not objects.

5. What is Abstraction?

Abstraction is the process of separating

ideas from specific instances and thus,
develop classes in terms of their own
functionality, instead of their implementation
details. Java supports the creation and
existence of abstract classes that expose
interfaces, without including the actual
implementation of all methods. The
abstraction technique aims to separate the
implementation details of a class from its
behavior.

6. What is Encapsulation?

Encapsulation provides objects with the

ability to hide their internal characteristics
and behavior. Each object provides a
number of methods, which can be accessed
by other objects and change its internal data.
In Java, there are three access modifiers:
public, private and protected. Each modifier
imposes different access rights to other
classes, either in the same or in external
packages. Some of the advantages of using
encapsulation are listed below:

The internal state of every object is

protected by hiding its attributes.
It increases usability and maintenance of
code, because the behavior of an object
can be independently changed or
extended.
It improves modularity by preventing
objects to interact with each other, in an
undesired way.

You can refer to our tutorial here for more

details and examples on encapsulation.
7. What are the differences between
Abstraction and Encapsulation?

Abstraction and encapsulation are

complementary concepts. On the one hand,
abstraction focuses on the behavior of an
object. On the other hand, encapsulation
focuses on the implementation of an object’s
behavior. Encapsulation is usually achieved
by hiding information about the internal state
of an object and thus, can be seen as a
strategy used in order to provide abstraction.

8. What is Polymorphism?

Polymorphism is the ability of programming

languages to present the same interface for
differing underlying data types. A
polymorphic type is a type whose operations
can also be applied to values of some other
type.

9. What are the types of Polymorphism?

There are two types of Polymorphism in

Java:

Compile time polymorphism (Static

binding) – Method overloading
Runtime polymorphism (Dynamic binding)
– Method overriding

We can perform polymorphism by ‘Method

Overloading’ and ‘Method Overriding’

10. What is Inheritance?

Inheritance provides an object with the ability

to acquire the fields and methods of another
class, called base class. Inheritance provides
reusability of code and can be used to add
additional features to an existing class,
without modifying it.

11. What is composition?

Composition is exactly like Aggregation

except that the lifetime of the ‘part’ is
controlled by the ‘whole’. This control may be
direct or transitive. That is, the ‘whole’ may
take direct responsibility for creating or
destroying the ‘part’, or it may accept an
already created part, and later pass it on to
some other whole that assumes
responsibility for it.

12. What is association?

Association represents the ability of one

instance to send a message to another
instance. This is typically implemented with a
pointer or reference instance variable,
although it might also be implemented as a
method argument, or the creation of a local
variable.

13. What is aggregation?

Aggregation is is the typical whole/part

relationship. This is exactly the same as an
association with the exception that instances
cannot have cyclic aggregation relationships.

General Questions
about Java
14. What is JVM?

A Java virtual machine (JVM) is a process

virtual machine that can execute Java
bytecode. Each Java source file is compiled
into a bytecode file, which is executed by the
JVM.

15. Why is Java called the “Platform

Independent Programming Language”?

Java was designed to allow application

programs to be built that could be run on any
platform, without having to be rewritten or
recompiled by the programmer for each
separate platform. A Java virtual machine
makes this possible, because it is aware of
the specific instruction lengths and other
particularities of the underlying hardware
platform.
16. What is the Difference between JDK
and JRE?

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is

basically the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
where your Java programs are being
executed. It also includes browser plugins for
applet execution. The Java Development Kit
(JDK) is the full featured Software
Development Kit for Java, including the JRE,
the compilers and tools (like JavaDoc, and
Java Debugger), in order for a user to
develop, compile and execute Java
applications.

17. What does the “static” keyword

mean?

The static keyword denotes that a member

variable or method can be accessed, without
requiring an instantiation of the class to
which it belongs.

18. Can you override private or static

method in Java?

A user cannot override static methods in

Java, because method overriding is based
upon dynamic binding at runtime and static
methods are statically bound at compile
time. A static method is not associated with
any instance of a class so the concept is not
applicable.

19. Can you access non static variable in

static context?

A static variable in Java belongs to its class

and its value remains the same for all its
instances. A static variable is initialized when
the class is loaded by the JVM. If your code
tries to access a non-static variable, without
any instance, the compiler will complain,
because those variables are not created yet
and they are not associated with any
instance.

20. What are the Data Types supported by

Java?
The eight primitive data types supported by
the Java programming language are:

byte
short
int
long
float
double
boolean
char

21. What is Autoboxing and Unboxing?

Autoboxing is the automatic conversion

made by the Java compiler between the
primitive types and their corresponding
object wrapper classes. For example, the
compiler converts an int to an Integer, a
double to a Double, and so on. If the
conversion goes the other way, this
operation is called unboxing.

22. What is Function Overriding and

Overloading in Java?

Method overloading in Java occurs when two

or more methods in the same class have the
exact same name, but different parameters.
On the other hand, method overriding is
defined as the case when a child class
redefines the same method as a parent
class. Overridden methods must have the
same name, argument list, and return type.
The overriding method may not limit the
access of the method it overrides.

23. What is a Constructor?

A constructor gets invoked when a new

object is created. Every class has a
constructor. In case the programmer does
not provide a constructor for a class, the
Java compiler (Javac) creates a default
constructor for that class.
24. What is Constructor Overloading?

The constructor overloading is similar to

method overloading in Java. Different
constructors can be created for a single
class. Each constructor must have its own
unique parameter list.

25. What is Copy-Constructor?

Finally, Java does support copy constructors

like C++, but the difference lies in the fact
that Java doesn’t create a default copy
constructor if you don’t write your own.

26. Does Java support multiple

inheritance?

No, Java does not support multiple

inheritance. Each class is able to extend only
on one class, but is able to implement more
than one interfaces.

27. What is the difference between an

Interface and an Abstract class?

Java provides and supports the creation both

of abstract classes and interfaces. Both
implementations share some common
characteristics, but they differ in the following
features:

All methods in an interface are implicitly

abstract. On the other hand, an abstract
class may contain both abstract and non-
abstract methods.
A class may implement a number of
Interfaces, but can extend only one
abstract class.
In order for a class to implement an
interface, it must implement all its
declared methods. However, a class may
not implement all declared methods of an
abstract class. Though, in this case, the
sub-class must also be declared as
abstract.
Abstract classes can implement interfaces
without even providing the implementation
 of interface methods.
Variables declared in a Java interface is
by default final. An abstract class may
contain non-final variables.
Members of a Java interface are public by
default. A member of an abstract class
can either be private, protected or public.
An interface is absolutely abstract and
cannot be instantiated. An abstract class
also cannot be instantiated, but can be
invoked if it contains a main method.

Also check out the Abstract class and

Interface differences for JDK 8.

28. What are pass by reference and pass

by value?

When an object is passed by value, this

means that a copy of the object is passed.
Thus, even if changes are made to that
object, it doesn’t affect the original value.
When an object is passed by reference, this
means that the actual object is not passed,
rather a reference of the object is passed.
Thus, any changes made by the external
method, are also reflected in all places.

29. What is the purpose of a Volatile

Variable?

Volatile variable values can be modified by

different threads. They will never have the
chance to block and hold a lock.
Synchronization will happen whenever the
variables are accessed. Using volatile may
be faster than a lock, but it will not work in
some situations. The range of situations in
which volatile is effective was expanded in
Java 5; in particular, double-checked locking
now works correctly.

30. What is the purpose of a Transient

variable?

Transient variable would not be serialized

even if the class to which it belongs is
serialized.

31. What is Local Variable and Instance

Variable?

Local variable:

is declared inside a method/constructor or

within a block
must be initialized before use, otherwise it
won’t compile.

Instance variable:

is declared inside a class.

initialization is not compulsory: if omitted,
it contains default value

32. What are the different access

modifiers available in Java?

There are four types of Access modifiers:

Public – accessible from everywhere in

the application
Protected – accessible within package
and the subclasses in any package
Package Private (Default) – accessible
strictly within the package
Private – accessible only within the same
class where it is declared

33. Difference between static binding and

dynamic binding

Static Binding:

Definition of a procedure
Declaration of a name(variable, etc.)
Scope of the declaration

Dynamic Binding:

Activation of a procedure
Binding of a name
Lifetime of a binding
34. What are wrapper classes?
A wrapper class converts java primitives into
objects. So a primitive wrapper class is a
wrapper class that encapsulates, hides or
wraps data types from the eight primitive
data types, so that these can be used to
create instantiated objects with methods in
another class or in other classes. The
primitive wrapper classes are found in the
Java API.

35. What is singleton class and how can

we make a class singleton?
In a singleton class we:

ensure that only one instance of the

singleton class ever exists
provide global access to that instance

To create a singleton class we:

declare all constructors of the class as

private
provide a static method that returns a
reference to the instance

Java Threads
36. What is the difference between
processes and threads?

A process is an execution of a program,

while a Thread is a single execution
sequence within a process. A process can
contain multiple threads. A Thread is
sometimes called a lightweight process.

37. Explain different ways of creating a

thread. Which one would you prefer and
why?

There are three ways that can be used in

order for a Thread to be created:

A class may extend the Thread class.

A class may implement the Runnable
interface.
 An application can use the Executor
framework, in order to create a thread
pool.

The Runnable interface is preferred, as it

does not require an object to inherit the
Thread class. In case your application design
requires multiple inheritance, only interfaces
can help you. Also, the thread pool is very
efficient and can be implemented and used
very easily.

38. Explain the available thread states in a

high-level.

During its execution, a thread can reside in

one of the following states:

NEW: The thread becomes ready to run,

but does not necessarily start running
immediately.
RUNNABLE: The Java Virtual Machine
(JVM) is actively executing the thread’s
code.
BLOCKED: The thread is in a blocked
state while waiting for a monitor lock.
WAITING: The thread waits for another
thread to perform a particular action.
TIMED_WAITING: The thread waits for
another thread to perform a particular
action up to a specified waiting time.
TERMINATED: The thread has finished
its execution.

39. What is the difference between a

method and block that are synchronized?

In Java programming, each object has a

lock. A thread can acquire the lock for an
object by using the synchronized keyword.
The synchronized keyword can be applied in
a method level (coarse grained lock) or block
level of code (fine grained lock).

40. How does thread synchronization

occurs inside a monitor?
The JVM uses locks in conjunction with
monitors. A monitor is basically a guardian
that watches over a sequence of
synchronized code and ensuring that only
one thread at a time executes a
synchronized piece of code. Each monitor is
associated with an object reference. The
thread is not allowed to execute the code
until it obtains the lock.

41. What’s a deadlock?

A condition that occurs when two processes

are waiting for each other to complete,
before proceeding. The result is that both
processes wait endlessly.

42. How do you ensure that N threads can

access N resources without deadlock?

A very simple way to avoid deadlock while

using N threads is to impose an ordering on
the locks and force each thread to follow that
ordering. Thus, if all threads lock and unlock
the mutexes in the same order, no deadlocks
can arise.

43. What are differences between wait

and sleep method in Java?

Call on:

wait(): Call on an object; current thread

must synchronize on the lock object.
sleep(): Call on a Thread; always
currently executing thread.

Synchronized:

wait(): when synchronized multiple

threads access same Object one by one.
sleep(): when synchronized multiple
threads wait for sleep over of sleeping
thread.

Hold lock:

wait(): release the lock for other objects to

 have chance to execute.
sleep(): keep lock for at least t times if
timeout specified or somebody interrupt.

Wake-up condition:

wait(): until call notify(), notifyAll() from

object
sleep(): until at least time expire or call
interrupt().

Usage:

sleep(): for time-synchronization and;

wait(): for multi-thread-synchronization.

Java Collections
44. What are the basic interfaces of Java
Collections Framework?

Java Collections Framework provides a well

designed set of interfaces and classes that
support operations on a collections of
objects. The most basic interfaces that
reside in the Java Collections Framework
are:

Collection, which represents a group of

objects known as its elements.
Set, which is a collection that cannot
contain duplicate elements.
List, which is an ordered collection and
can contain duplicate elements.
Map, which is an object that maps keys to
values and cannot contain duplicate keys.

45. Why Collection doesn’t extend

Cloneable and Serializable interfaces?

The Collection interface specifies groups of

objects known as elements. Each concrete
implementation of a Collection can choose its
own way of how to maintain and order its
elements. Some collections allow duplicate
keys, while some other collections don’t. The
semantics and the implications of either
cloning or serialization come into play when
dealing with actual implementations. Thus,
the concrete implementations of collections
should decide how they can be cloned or
serialized.

46. What is an Iterator?

The Iterator interface provides a number of

methods that are able to iterate over any
Collection. Each Java Collection contains the
iterator method that returns an Iterator
instance. Iterators are capable of removing
elements from the underlying collection
during the iteration.

47. What differences exist between

Iterator and ListIterator?

The differences of these elements are listed

below:

An Iterator can be used to traverse the

Set and List collections, while the
ListIterator can be used to iterate only
over Lists.
The Iterator can traverse a collection only
in forward direction, while the ListIterator
can traverse a List in both directions.
The ListIterator implements the Iterator
interface and contains extra functionality,
such as adding an element, replacing an
element, getting the index position for
previous and next elements, etc.

48. What is difference between fail-fast

and fail-safe?

The Iterator’s fail-safe property works with

the clone of the underlying collection and
thus, it is not affected by any modification in
the collection. All the collection classes in
java.util package are fail-fast, while the
collection classes in java.util.concurrent are
fail-safe. Fail-fast iterators throw a
ConcurrentModificationException, while fail-
safe iterator never throws such an exception.

49. How HashMap works in Java?

A HashMap in Java stores key-value pairs.

The HashMap requires a hash function and
uses hashCode and equals methods, in
order to put and retrieve elements to and
from the collection respectively. When the
put method is invoked, the HashMap
calculates the hash value of the key and
stores the pair in the appropriate index inside
the collection. If the key exists, its value is
updated with the new value. Some important
characteristics of a HashMap are its
capacity, its load factor and the threshold
resizing.

50. What is the importance of hashCode()

and equals() methods?

In Java, a HashMap uses the hashCode and

equals methods to determine the index of
the key-value pair and to detect duplicates.
More specifically, the hashCode method is
used in order to determine where the
specified key will be stored. Since different
keys may produce the same hash value, the
equals method is used, in order to determine
whether the specified key actually exists in
the collection or not. Therefore, the
implementation of both methods is crucial to
the accuracy and efficiency of the HashMap.

51. What is the difference between

HashMap and Hashtable?

Both the HashMap and Hashtable classes

implement the Map interface and thus, have
very similar characteristics. However, they
differ in the following features:

A HashMap allows the existence of null

keys and values, while a Hashtable
doesn’t allow neither null keys, nor null
values.
A Hashtable is synchronized, while a
HashMap is not. Thus, HashMap is
 preferred in single-threaded
environments, while a Hashtable is
suitable for multi-threaded environments.
A HashMap provides its set of keys and a
Java application can iterate over them.
Thus, a HashMap is fail-fast. On the other
hand, a Hashtable provides an
Enumeration of its keys.
The Hashtable class is considered to be a
legacy class.

52. What is difference between Array and

ArrayList? When will you use Array over
ArrayList?

The Array and ArrayList classes differ on the

following features:

Arrays can contain primitive or objects,

while an ArrayList can contain only
objects.
Arrays have fixed size, while an ArrayList
is dynamic.
An ArrayList provides more methods and
features, such as addAll, removeAll,
iterator, etc.
For a list of primitive data types, the
collections use autoboxing to reduce the
coding effort. However, this approach
makes them slower when working on
fixed size primitive data types.

53. What is difference between ArrayList

and LinkedList?

Both the ArrayList and LinkedList classes

implement the List interface, but they differ
on the following features:

An ArrayList is an index based data

structure backed by an Array. It provides
random access to its elements with a
performance equal to O(1). On the other
hand, a LinkedList stores its data as list of
elements and every element is linked to
its previous and next element. In this
 case, the search operation for an element
has execution time equal to O(n).
The Insertion, addition and removal
operations of an element are faster in a
LinkedList compared to an ArrayList,
because there is no need of resizing an
array or updating the index when an
element is added in some arbitrary
position inside the collection.
A LinkedList consumes more memory
than an ArrayList, because every node in
a LinkedList stores two references, one
for its previous element and one for its
next element.

Check also our article ArrayList vs.

LinkedList.

54. What is the difference between

Comparable and Comparator?

Java provides the Comparable interface,

which contains only one method, called
compareTo. This method compares two
objects, in order to impose an order
between them. Specifically, it returns a
negative integer, zero, or a positive
integer to indicate that the input object is
less than, equal or greater than the
existing object.
Java provides the Comparator interface,
which contains two methods, called
compare and equals. The first method
compares its two input arguments and
imposes an order between them. It
returns a negative integer, zero, or a
positive integer to indicate that the first
argument is less than, equal to, or greater
than the second. The second method
requires an object as a parameter and
aims to decide whether the input object is
equal to the comparator. The method
returns true, only if the specified object is
also a comparator and it imposes the
same ordering as the comparator.
55. What is Java Priority Queue?

The PriorityQueue is an unbounded queue,

based on a priority heap and its elements are
ordered in their natural order. At the time of
its creation, we can provide a Comparator
that is responsible for ordering the elements
of the PriorityQueue. A PriorityQueue doesn’t
allow null values, those objects that doesn’t
provide natural ordering, or those objects
that don’t have any comparator associated
with them. Finally, the Java PriorityQueue is
not thread-safe and it requires O(log(n)) time
for its enqueuing and dequeuing operations.

56. What do you know about the big-O

notation and can you give some examples
with respect to different data structures?

The Big-O notation simply describes how

well an algorithm scales or performs in the
worst case scenario as the number of
elements in a data structure increases. The
Big-O notation can also be used to describe
other behavior such as memory
consumption. Since the collection classes
are actually data structures, we usually use
the Big-O notation to choose the best
implementation to use, based on time,
memory and performance. Big-O notation
can give a good indication about
performance for large amounts of data.

57. What is the trade-off between using

an unordered array versus an ordered
array?

The major advantage of an ordered array is

that the search times have time complexity of
O(log n), compared to that of an unordered
array, which is O (n). The disadvantage of an
ordered array is that the insertion operation
has a time complexity of O(n), because the
elements with higher values must be moved
to make room for the new element. Instead,
the insertion operation for an unordered
array takes constant time of O(1).
58. What are some of the best practices
relating to the Java Collection
framework?

Choosing the right type of the collection to

use, based on the application’s needs, is
very crucial for its performance. For
example if the size of the elements is
fixed and know a priori, we shall use an
Array, instead of an ArrayList.
Some collection classes allow us to
specify their initial capacity. Thus, if we
have an estimation on the number of
elements that will be stored, we can use it
to avoid rehashing or resizing.
Always use Generics for type-safety,
readability, and robustness. Also, by using
Generics you avoid the
ClassCastException during runtime.
Use immutable classes provided by the
Java Development Kit (JDK) as a key in a
Map, in order to avoid the implementation
of the hashCode and equals methods for
our custom class.
Program in terms of interface not
implementation.
Return zero-length collections or arrays
as opposed to returning a null in case the
underlying collection is actually empty.

59. What’s the difference between

Enumeration and Iterator interfaces?

Enumeration is twice as fast as compared to

an Iterator and uses very less memory.
However, the Iterator is much safer
compared to Enumeration, because other
threads are not able to modify the collection
object that is currently traversed by the
iterator. Also, Iterators allow the caller to
remove elements from the underlying
collection, something which is not possible
with Enumerations.

60. What is the difference between

HashSet and TreeSet?
The HashSet is Implemented using a hash
table and thus, its elements are not ordered.
The add, remove, and contains methods of a
HashSet have constant time complexity O(1).
On the other hand, a TreeSet is implemented
using a tree structure. The elements in a
TreeSet are sorted, and thus, the add,
remove, and contains methods have time
complexity of O(logn).

Garbage Collectors
61. What is the purpose of garbage
collection in Java, and when is it used?

The purpose of garbage collection is to

identify and discard those objects that are no
longer needed by the application, in order for
the resources to be reclaimed and reused.

62. What does System.gc() and

Runtime.gc() methods do?

These methods can be used as a hint to the

JVM, in order to start a garbage collection.
However, this it is up to the Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) to start the garbage
collection immediately or later in time.

63. When is the finalize() called? What is

the purpose of finalization?

The finalize method is called by the garbage

collector, just before releasing the object’s
memory. It is normally advised to release
resources held by the object inside the
finalize method.

64. If an object reference is set to null, will

the Garbage Collector immediately free
the memory held by that object?

No, the object will be available for garbage

collection in the next cycle of the garbage
collector.

65. What is structure of Java Heap?

The JVM has a heap that is the runtime data
area from which memory for all class
instances and arrays is allocated. It is
created at the JVM start-up. Heap memory
for objects is reclaimed by an automatic
memory management system which is
known as a garbage collector. Heap memory
consists of live and dead objects. Live
objects are accessible by the application and
will not be a subject of garbage collection.
Dead objects are those which will never be
accessible by the application, but have not
been collected by the garbage collector yet.
Such objects occupy the heap memory
space until they are eventually collected by
the garbage collector.

66. What is the difference between Serial

and Throughput Garbage collector?

The throughput garbage collector uses a

parallel version of the young generation
collector and is meant to be used with
applications that have medium to large data
sets. On the other hand, the serial collector
is usually adequate for most small
applications (those requiring heaps of up to
approximately 100MB on modern
processors).

67. When does an Object becomes

eligible for Garbage collection in Java?

A Java object is subject to garbage collection

when it becomes unreachable to the
program in which it is currently used.

68. Does Garbage collection occur in

permanent generation space in JVM?

Garbage Collection does occur in PermGen

space and if PermGen space is full or cross a
threshold, it can trigger a full garbage
collection. If you look carefully at the output
of the garbage collector, you will find that
PermGen space is also garbage collected.
This is the reason why correct sizing of
PermGen space is important to avoid
frequent full garbage collections. Also check
our article Java 8: PermGen to Metaspace.

Exception Handling
69. What are the differences between
Checked Exception and Unchecked
Exception?

Checked Exception:

known as compile time exceptions

propagated using throws keyword
can create custom exception by extending
java.lang.Exception class

Unchecked Exception:

known as Runtime exceptions

automatically propagated
can create custom exception by extending
Runtime exception

70. What is the difference between

Exception and Error in java?

Exception and Error classes are both

subclasses of the Throwable class. The
Exception class is used for exceptional
conditions that a user’s program should
catch. The Error class defines exceptions
that are not expected to be caught by the
user program.

71. What is the difference between throw

and throws?

The throw keyword is used to explicitly raise

a exception within the program. On the
contrary, the throws clause is used to
indicate those exceptions that are not
handled by a method. Each method must
explicitly specify which exceptions does not
handle, so the callers of that method can
guard against possible exceptions. Finally,
multiple exceptions are separated by a
comma.

72. What is the importance of finally block

in exception handling?

A finally block will always be executed,

whether or not an exception is actually
thrown. Even in the case where the catch
statement is missing and an exception is
thrown, the finally block will still be executed.
Last thing to mention is that the finally block
is used to release resources like I/O buffers,
database connections, etc.

73. What will happen to the Exception

object after exception handling?

The Exception object will be garbage

collected in the next garbage collection.

74. What purpose does the keywords

final, finally, and finalize fulfill?

Final keyword is used to apply

restrictions on class(immutable),
method(cannot override) and
variable(constant).
Finally is a block that always executes
when the try block exits even if an
unexpected exception occurs.
Finalize is a method called to clean or
release the resources by the Garbage
Collector before destroying the object.

Java Applets
75. What is an Applet?

A java applet is program that can be included

in a HTML page and be executed in a java
enabled client browser. Applets are used for
creating dynamic and interactive web
applications.

76. Explain the life cycle of an Applet.

An applet may undergo the following states:

Init: An applet is initialized each time is

 loaded.
Start: Begin the execution of an applet.
Stop: Stop the execution of an applet.
Destroy: Perform a final cleanup, before
unloading the applet.

77. What happens when an applet is

loaded?

First of all, an instance of the applet’s

controlling class is created. Then, the applet
initializes itself and finally, it starts running.

78. What is the difference between an

Applet and a Java Application?

Applets are executed within a java enabled

browser, but a Java application is a
standalone Java program that can be
executed outside of a browser. However,
they both require the existence of a Java
Virtual Machine (JVM). Furthermore, a Java
application requires a main method with a
specific signature, in order to start its
execution. Java applets don’t need such a
method to start their execution. Finally, Java
applets typically use a restrictive security
policy, while Java applications usually use
more relaxed security policies.

79. What are the restrictions imposed on

Java applets?

Mostly due to security reasons, the following

restrictions are imposed on Java applets:

An applet cannot load libraries or define

native methods.
An applet cannot ordinarily read or write
files on the execution host.
An applet cannot read certain system
properties.
An applet cannot make network
connections except to the host that it
came from.
An applet cannot start any program on the
 host that’s executing it.

80. What are untrusted applets?

Untrusted applets are those Java applets

that cannot access or execute local system
files. By default, all downloaded applets are
considered as untrusted.

81. What is the difference between

applets loaded over the internet and
applets loaded via the file system?

Regarding the case where an applet is

loaded over the internet, the applet is loaded
by the applet classloader and is subject to
the restrictions enforced by the applet
security manager. Regarding the case where
an applet is loaded from the client’s local
disk, the applet is loaded by the file system
loader. Applets loaded via the file system are
allowed to read files, write files and to load
libraries on the client. Also, applets loaded
via the file system are allowed to execute
processes and finally, applets loaded via the
file system are not passed through the byte
code verifier.

82. What is the applet class loader, and

what does it provide?

When an applet is loaded over the internet,

the applet is loaded by the applet
classloader. The class loader enforces the
Java namespace hierarchy. Also, the class
loader guarantees that a unique namespace
exists for classes that come from the local
file system, and that a unique namespace
exists for each network source. When a
browser loads an applet over the net, that
applet’s classes are placed in a private
namespace associated with the applet’s
origin. Then, those classes loaded by the
class loader are passed through the verifier.
The verifier checks that the class file
conforms to the Java language specification.
Among other things, the verifier ensures that
there are no stack overflows or underflows
and that the parameters to all bytecode
instructions are correct.

83. What is the applet security manager,

and what does it provide?

The applet security manager is a mechanism

to impose restrictions on Java applets. A
browser may only have one security
manager. The security manager is
established at startup, and it cannot
thereafter be replaced, overloaded,
overridden, or extended.

Swing
84. What is the difference between a
Choice and a List?

A Choice is displayed in a compact form that

must be pulled down, in order for a user to
be able to see the list of all available choices.
Only one item may be selected from a
Choice. A List may be displayed in such a
way that several List items are visible. A List
supports the selection of one or more List
items.

85. What is a layout manager?

A layout manager is the used to organize the

components in a container.

86. What is the difference between a

Scrollbar and a JScrollPane?

A Scrollbar is a Component, but not a

Container. A ScrollPane is a Container. A
ScrollPane handles its own events and
performs its own scrolling.

87. Which Swing methods are thread-

safe?

There are only three thread-safe methods:

repaint, revalidate, and invalidate.

88. Name three Component subclasses

that support painting.
The Canvas, Frame, Panel, and Applet
classes support painting.

89. What is clipping?

Clipping is defined as the process of

confining paint operations to a limited area or
shape.

90. What is the difference between a

MenuItem and a CheckboxMenuItem?

The CheckboxMenuItem class extends the

MenuItem class and supports a menu item
that may be either checked or unchecked.

91. How are the elements of a

BorderLayout organized?

The elements of a BorderLayout are

organized at the borders (North, South, East,
and West) and the center of a container.

92. How are the elements of a

GridBagLayout organized?

The elements of a GridBagLayout are

organized according to a grid. The elements
are of different sizes and may occupy more
than one row or column of the grid. Thus, the
rows and columns may have different sizes.

93. What is the difference between a

Window and a Frame?

The Frame class extends the Window class

and defines a main application window that
can have a menu bar.

94. What is the relationship between

clipping and repainting?

When a window is repainted by the AWT

painting thread, it sets the clipping regions to
the area of the window that requires
repainting.

95. What is the relationship between an

event-listener interface and an event-
adapter class?

An event-listener interface defines the

methods that must be implemented by an
event handler for a particular event. An event
adapter provides a default implementation of
an event-listener interface.

96. How can a GUI component handle its

own events?

A GUI component can handle its own events,

by implementing the corresponding event-
listener interface and adding itself as its own
event listener.

97. What advantage do Java’s layout

managers provide over traditional
windowing systems?

Java uses layout managers to lay out

components in a consistent manner, across
all windowing platforms. Since layout
managers aren’t tied to absolute sizing and
positioning, they are able to accomodate
platform-specific differences among
windowing systems.

98. What is the design pattern that Java

uses for all Swing components?

The design pattern used by Java for all

Swing components is the Model View
Controller (MVC) pattern.

JDBC
99. What is JDBC?

JDBC is an abstraction layer that allows

users to choose between databases. JDBC
enables developers to write database
applications in Java, without having to
concern themselves with the underlying
details of a particular database.

100. What are the JDBC API components?

The java.sql package contains:

Interfaces:

Driver
Connection
Statement
PreparedStatement
CallableStatement
ResultSet

Classes:

DriverManager
SQLException

101. Explain the role of Driver in JDBC.

The JDBC Driver provides vendor-specific

implementations of the abstract classes
provided by the JDBC API. Each driver must
provide implementations for the following
interfaces of the java.sql package:
Connection, Statement, PreparedStatement,
CallableStatement, ResultSet and Driver.

102. What is JDBC Connection interface?

Connection interface maintains a session

with the database. SQL statements are
executed and results are returned within the
context of a connection. A Connection
object’s database is able to provide
information describing its tables, its
supported SQL grammar, its stored
procedures, the capabilities of this
connection, and so on. This information is
obtained with the getMetaData method.

103. What does Connection pooling

mean?

The interaction with a database can be

costly, regarding the opening and closing of
database connections. Especially, when the
number of database clients increases, this
cost is very high and a large number of
resources is consumed.A pool of database
connections is obtained at start up by the
application server and is maintained in a
pool. A request for a connection is served by
a connection residing in the pool. In the end
of the connection, the request is returned to
the pool and can be used to satisfy future
requests.

104. What is the role of JDBC

DriverManager class?

The DriverManager provides the user with a

basic service for managing a set of JDBC
drivers. It maintains contact with the available
drivers and establishes a database
connection with an appropriate one.

105. What is the purpose Class.forName

method?

This method is used to load the driver that

will establish a connection to the database.

106. What is the advantage of

PreparedStatement over Statement?

PreparedStatement is precompiled and thus,

performance is much better. Also,
PreparedStatement objects can be reused
with different input values to their queries.

107. What is the use of

CallableStatement?

A CallableStatement is used to execute

stored procedures. Stored procedures are
stored and offered by a database. Stored
procedures may take input values from the
user and may return a result. The usage of
stored procedures is highly encouraged,
because it offers security and modularity.The
method that prepares a CallableStatement is
CallableStatement.prepareCall().

108. What do you mean by batch

processing in JDBC?

Batch processing groups related SQL

statements and execute multiple queries
when the batch size reaches a desired
threshold. This makes the performance
faster.

Remote Method
Invocation (RMI)
109. What is RMI?

The Java Remote Method Invocation (Java

RMI) is a Java API that performs the object-
oriented equivalent of remote procedure calls
(RPC), with support for direct transfer of
serialized Java classes and distributed
garbage collection. Remote Method
Invocation (RMI) can also be seen as the
process of activating a method on a remotely
running object. RMI offers location
transparency because a user feels that a
method is executed on a locally running
object. Check some RMI Tips here.

110. What is the basic principle of RMI

architecture?

The RMI architecture is based on a very

important principle which states that the
definition of the behavior and the
implementation of that behavior, are
separate concepts. RMI allows the code that
defines the behavior and the code that
implements the behavior to remain separate
and to run on separate JVMs.

111. What are the layers of RMI

Architecture?

The RMI architecture consists of the

following layers:

Stub and Skeleton layer: This layer lies

just beneath the view of the developer.
This layer is responsible for intercepting
method calls made by the client to the
interface and redirect these calls to a
remote RMI Service.
Remote Reference Layer: The second
 layer of the RMI architecture deals with
the interpretation of references made
from the client to the server’s remote
objects. This layer interprets and
manages references made from clients to
the remote service objects. The
connection is a one-to-one (unicast) link.
Transport layer: This layer is responsible
for connecting the two JVM participating
in the service. This layer is based on
TCP/IP connections between machines in
a network. It provides basic connectivity,
as well as some firewall penetration
strategies.

112. What is the role of Remote Interface

in RMI?

The Remote interface serves to identify

interfaces whose methods may be invoked
from a non-local virtual machine. Any object
that is a remote object must directly or
indirectly implement this interface. A class
that implements a remote interface should
declare the remote interfaces being
implemented, define the constructor for each
remote object and provide an implementation
for each remote method in all remote
interfaces.

113. What is the role of the

java.rmi.Naming Class?

The java.rmi.Naming class provides methods

for storing and obtaining references to
remote objects in the remote object registry.
Each method of the Naming class takes as
one of its arguments a name that is a String
in URL format.

114. What is meant by binding in RMI?

Binding is the process of associating or

registering a name for a remote object, which
can be used at a later time, in order to look
up that remote object. A remote object can
be associated with a name using the bind or
rebind methods of the Naming class.

115. What is the difference between using

bind() and rebind() methods of Naming
Class?

The bind method bind is responsible for

binding the specified name to a remote
object, while the rebind method is
responsible for rebinding the specified name
to a new remote object. In case a binding
exists for that name, the binding is replaced.

116. What are the steps involved to make

work a RMI program?

The following steps must be involved in order

for a RMI program to work properly:

Compilation of all source files.

Generation of the stubs using rmic.
Start the rmiregistry.
Start the RMIServer.
Run the client program.

117. What is the role of stub in RMI?

A stub for a remote object acts as a client’s

local representative or proxy for the remote
object. The caller invokes a method on the
local stub, which is responsible for executing
the method on the remote object. When a
stub’s method is invoked, it undergoes the
following steps:

It initiates a connection to the remote JVM

containing the remote object.
It marshals the parameters to the remote
JVM.
It waits for the result of the method
invocation and execution.
It unmarshals the return value or an
exception if the method has not been
successfully executed.
It returns the value to the caller.
118. What is DGC and how does it work?

DGC stands for Distributed Garbage

Collection. Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
uses DGC for automatic garbage collection.
Since RMI involves remote object references
across JVM’s, garbage collection can be
quite difficult. DGC uses a reference counting
algorithm to provide automatic memory
management for remote objects.

119. What is the purpose of using

RMISecurityManager in RMI?

RMISecurityManager provides a security

manager that can be used by RMI
applications, which use downloaded code.
The class loader of RMI will not download
any classes from remote locations, if the
security manager has not been set.

120. Explain Marshalling and

demarshalling.

When an application wants to pass its

memory objects across a network to another
host or persist it to storage, the in-memory
representation must be converted to a
suitable format. This process is called
marshalling and the revert operation is called
demarshalling.

121. Explain Serialization and

Deserialization.

Java provides a mechanism, called object

serialization where an object can be
represented as a sequence of bytes and
includes the object’s data, as well as
information about the object’s type, and the
types of data stored in the object. Thus,
serialization can be seen as a way of
flattening objects, in order to be stored on
disk, and later, read back and reconstituted.
Deserialisation is the reverse process of
converting an object from its flattened state
to a live object.
Servlets
122. What is a Servlet?

The servlet is a Java programming language

class used to process client requests and
generate dynamic web content. Servlets are
mostly used to process or store data
submitted by an HTML form, provide
dynamic content and manage state
information that does not exist in the
stateless HTTP protocol.

123. Explain the architecture of a Servlet.

The core abstraction that must be

implemented by all servlets is the
javax.servlet.Servlet interface. Each servlet
must implement it either directly or indirectly,
either by extending
javax.servlet.GenericServlet or
javax.servlet.http.HTTPServlet. Finally, each
servlet is able to serve multiple requests in
parallel using multithreading.

124. What is the difference between an

Applet and a Servlet?

An Applet is a client side java program that

runs within a Web browser on the client
machine. On the other hand, a servlet is a
server side component that runs on the web
server.An applet can use the user interface
classes, while a servlet does not have a user
interface. Instead, a servlet waits for client’s
HTTP requests and generates a response in
every request.

125. What is the difference between

GenericServlet and HttpServlet?

GenericServlet is a generalized and protocol-

independent servlet that implements the
Servlet and ServletConfig interfaces. Those
servlets extending the GenericServlet class
shall override the service method. Finally, in
order to develop an HTTP servlet for use on
the Web that serves requests using the
HTTP protocol, your servlet must extend the
HttpServlet instead. Check Servlet examples
here.

126. Explain the life cycle of a Servlet.

On every client’s request, the Servlet Engine

loads the servlets and invokes its init
methods, in order for the servlet to be
initialized. Then, the Servlet object handles
all subsequent requests coming from that
client, by invoking the service method for
each request separately. Finally, the servlet
is removed by calling the server’s destroy
method.

127. What is the difference between

doGet() and doPost()?

doGET: The GET method appends the

name-value pairs on the request’s URL.
Thus, there is a limit on the number of
characters and subsequently on the number
of values that can be used in a client’s
request. Furthermore, the values of the
request are made visible and thus, sensitive
information must not be passed in that way.
doPOST: The POST method overcomes the
limit imposed by the GET request, by
sending the values of the request inside its
body. Also, there is no limitations on the
number of values to be sent across. Finally,
the sensitive information passed through a
POST request is not visible to an external
client.

128. What is meant by a Web Application?

A Web application is a dynamic extension of

a Web or application server. There are two
types of web applications: presentation-
oriented and service-oriented. A
presentation-oriented Web application
generates interactive web pages, which
contain various types of markup language
and dynamic content in response to
requests. On the other hand, a service-
oriented web application implements the
endpoint of a web service. In general, a Web
application can be seen as a collection of
servlets installed under a specific subset of
the server’s URL namespace.

129. What is a Server Side Include (SSI)?

Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple

interpreted server-side scripting language,
used almost exclusively for the Web, and is
embedded with a servlet tag. The most
frequent use of SSI is to include the contents
of one or more files into a Web page on a
Web server. When a Web page is accessed
by a browser, the Web server replaces the
servlet tag in that Web page with the hyper
text generated by the corresponding servlet.

130. What is Servlet Chaining?

Servlet Chaining is the method where the

output of one servlet is sent to a second
servlet. The output of the second servlet can
be sent to a third servlet, and so on. The last
servlet in the chain is responsible for sending
the response to the client.

131. How do you find out what client

machine is making a request to your
servlet?

The ServletRequest class has functions for

finding out the IP address or host name of
the client machine. getRemoteAddr() gets
the IP address of the client machine and
getRemoteHost() gets the host name of the
client machine. See example here.

132. What is the structure of the HTTP

response?

The HTTP response consists of three parts:

Status Code: describes the status of the

response. It can be used to check if the
request has been successfully completed.
In case the request failed, the status code
can be used to find out the reason behind
the failure. If your servlet does not return a
 status code, the success status code,
HttpServletResponse.SC_OK, is returned
by default.
HTTP Headers: they contain more
information about the response. For
example, the headers may specify the
date/time after which the response is
considered stale, or the form of encoding
used to safely transfer the entity to the
user. See how to retrieve headers in
Servlet here.
Body: it contains the content of the
response. The body may contain HTML
code, an image, etc. The body consists of
the data bytes transmitted in an HTTP
transaction message immediately
following the headers.

133. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a bit of information that the Web

server sends to the browser. The browser
stores the cookies for each Web server in a
local file. In a future request, the browser,
along with the request, sends all stored
cookies for that specific Web server.

134. What is the difference between

session and cookie?

The differences between session and a

cookie are the following:

The session should work, regardless of

the settings on the client browser. The
client may have chosen to disable
cookies. However, the sessions still work,
as the client has no ability to disable them
in the server side.
The session and cookies also differ in the
amount of information the can store. The
HTTP session is capable of storing any
Java object, while a cookie can only store
String objects.

135. Which protocol will be used by

browser and servlet to communicate?

The browser communicates with a servlet by

using the HTTP protocol.

136. What is HTTP Tunneling?

HTTP Tunneling is a technique by which,

communications performed using various
network protocols are encapsulated using
the HTTP or HTTPS protocols. The HTTP
protocol therefore acts as a wrapper for a
channel that the network protocol being
tunneled uses to communicate. The masking
of other protocol requests as HTTP requests
is HTTP Tunneling.

137. What’s the difference between

sendRedirect and forward methods?

The sendRedirect method creates a new

request, while the forward method just
forwards a request to a new target. The
previous request scope objects are not
available after a redirect, because it results in
a new request. On the other hand, the
previous request scope objects are available
after forwarding. FInally, in general, the
sendRedirect method is considered to be
slower compare to the forward method.

138. What is URL Encoding and URL

Decoding?

The URL encoding procedure is responsible

for replacing all the spaces and every other
extra special character of a URL, into their
corresponding Hex representation. In
correspondence, URL decoding is the exact
opposite procedure.

139. What is Request Dispatcher?

Servlet Request Dispatcher is an interface

whose implementation defines that an object
can dispatch requests to any resource (such
as HTML, Image, JSP, Servlet etc.) on the
server. Another advantage of this interface is
that it is used in two cases:
 To include the response of one Servlet
into another (i.e. the client gets the
response of both Servlets)
To forward the client request to another
Servlet to honor the request (i.e. the client
calls a Servlet but the response to client is
given by another Servlet)

JSP
140. What is a JSP Page?

A Java Server Page (JSP) is a text document

that contains two types of text: static data
and JSP elements. Static data can be
expressed in any text-based format, such as
HTML or XML. JSP is a technology that
mixes static content with dynamically-
generated content. See JSP example here.

141. How are the JSP requests handled?

On the arrival of a JSP request, the browser

first requests a page with a .jsp extension.
Then, the Web server reads the request and
using the JSP compiler, the Web server
converts the JSP page into a servlet class.
Notice that the JSP file is compiled only on
the first request of the page, or if the JSP file
has changed.The generated servlet class is
invoked, in order to handle the browser’s
request. Once the execution of the request is
over, the servlet sends a response back to
the client. See how to get Request
parameters in a JSP.

142. What are the advantages of JSP?

The advantages of using the JSP technology

are shown below:

JSP pages are dynamically compiled into

servlets and thus, the developers can
easily make updates to presentation
code.
JSP pages can be pre-compiled.
JSP pages can be easily combined to
 static templates, including HTML or XML
fragments, with code that generates
dynamic content.
Developers can offer customized JSP tag
libraries that page authors access using
an XML-like syntax.
Developers can make logic changes at
the component level, without editing the
individual pages that use the application’s
logic.

143. What are Directives?

Directives are instructions that are processed

by the JSP engine, when the page is
compiled to a servlet. Directives are used to
set page-level instructions, insert data from
external files, and specify custom tag
libraries.

144. What are the different types of

Directives available in JSP?

Directives are defined between < %@ and %

>.The different types of directives are shown
below:

Include directive: it is used to include a file

and merges the content of the file with the
current page.
Page directive: it is used to define specific
attributes in the JSP page, like error page
and buffer.
Taglib: it is used to declare a custom tag
library which is used in the page.

145. What are JSP actions?

JSP actions use constructs in XML syntax to

control the behavior of the servlet engine.
They are executed when a JSP page is
requested. They can be dynamically inserted
into a file, re-use JavaBeans components,
forward the user to another page, or
generate HTML for the Java plugin.Some of
the available actions are listed below:
 jsp:include – includes a file, when the JSP
page is requested.
jsp:useBean – finds or instantiates a
JavaBean.
jsp:setProperty – sets the property of a
JavaBean.
jsp:getProperty – gets the property of a
JavaBean.
jsp:forward – forwards the requester to a
new page.
jsp:plugin – generates browser-specific
code.

146. What are Scriptlets?

In Java Server Pages (JSP) technology, a

scriptlet is a piece of Java-code embedded in
a JSP page. The scriptlet is everything inside
the tags. Between these tags, a user can add
any valid scriptlet.

147. What are Declarations?

Declarations are similar to variable

declarations in Java. Declarations are used
to declare variables for subsequent use in
expressions or scriptlets. To add a
declaration, you must use the sequences to
enclose your declarations.

148. What are Expressions?

A JSP expression is used to insert the value

of a scripting language expression,
converted into a string, into the data stream
returned to the client, by the web server.
Expressions are defined between <% = and
%> tags.

149. What is meant by implicit objects

and what are they?

JSP implicit objects are those Java objects

that the JSP Container makes available to
developers in each page. A developer can
call them directly, without being explicitly
declared. JSP Implicit Objects are also
called pre-defined variables.The following
objects are considered implicit in a JSP
page:

application
page
request
response
session
exception
out
config
pageContext

150. What are the different tags provided

in JSTL?

There are 5 type of JSTL tags:

Core:

Variable support
Flow control
URL management
Miscellaneous

XML:

Core
Flow control
Transformation

Internationalization:

Locale
Message formatting
Number and date formatting

Database:

SQL

Functions:

Collection length
 String manipulation

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aerobless 

That list seems really good. I study computer

science and it’ll definitely come in handy
once I start looking for a job.

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 4 years ago 

tomi crow 

Hope this will help you for java interview

more…

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Crow

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 1 year ago

leon 

One small error on hashCode and equals: if

2 instances are equal, they must provide the
same hashCode, BUT two different
instances may return the same hashCode.
Having hashCode always return 1 or some
other fixed number satisfies the contract,
although it would kill the performance of
HashMap and other hash related
functionality.
The hashCode just determines in which
hashmap bucket the instance is put, and
within that bucket the correct instance is
then looked up with the much more
expensive equals.

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 4 years ago

teoman 

perfect post, thanks for sharing.

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 4 years ago

Madiraju Krishna
Chaitanya
Nice Post.Thanks for sharing this with
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us.

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 4 years ago

Sumit Bisht 

This is correct, but many topics are outdated

here.

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 4 years ago 

Jeffrey Burch 

Yeah, there should be some questions

about Java 8 features. It will tell if the
candidate puts any effort into self
 improvement.

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 4 years ago

Nikitha 

Really perfect post, thanks for sharing with

us.

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 4 years ago

Robert Martin 

This is a quality peace of work. Thank you

for the effort.

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 4 years ago

Vlad 

Thanks to the author

I appreciate your efforts to write everything
in one place

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 4 years ago

raghu kumar 
challa
good very useful to all fresh engineering
graduates and experianced to get into job
easily.

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 4 years ago

M.Hagras 

Thanks a lot, it is very useful

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 4 years ago

Tk 

Very good work. It would be really great if

you could add more questions especially on
the new versions of Java. Also, few
implementation examples can be posted for
different concept. You have done a great
job.

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 4 years ago

RAVIKUMAR.M 

It is very useful for job seekers to get a great

job. thanks for sharing with us.

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 4 years ago

Ruth 

Thanks so much for this compilation. It is

very useful.

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 4 years ago

Nazim 

Thanks, but found some inaccuracies:

Q33 Other threads are able to modify
Collection of some Iterator, but next called
method on Iterator will throw
ConcurrentModificationException
Q37 It is recommended not to override
finalize() method in order to release
resource as JVM does not guarantee this
method to be invoked.

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 4 years ago

satish 
shirale
Thanks, I refreshed my java knowledge
once again.

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 4 years ago

Guarav 

Thanks … very useful

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 4 years ago

Madhu 

Thanks to the author ! Keep updating !

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 4 years ago

Jun 

nice job. Thank You. This tutorial is very

useful for people who seek job in
programming. I just love coding.

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 4 years ago

Akansha 

nice infrmation

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 4 years ago
 ِAhmed 
Mansour
nice infrmation

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 4 years ago
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