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In this Java Interview Questions blog, I am going to list some of the most important Java Interview Questions and Answers which
will set you apart in the interview process. Java is used by approx 10 Million developers worldwide to develop applications for 15
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Q1. Explain
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public : Public is an access modifier, which is used to specify who can access this method. Public means that this Method will
be accessible by any Class.
static : It is a keyword in java which identifies it is class based i.e it can be accessed without creating the instance of a Class.
void : It is the return type of the method. Void defines the method which will not return any value.
main: It is the name of the method which is searched by JVM as a starting point for an application with a particular signature
only. It is the method where the main execution occurs.
String args[] : It is the parameter passed to the main method.
Platform independent practically means “write once run anywhere”. Java is called so because of its byte codes which can run on
any system irrespective of its underlying operating system.
Java is not 100% Object-oriented because it makes use of eight primitive datatypes such as boolean, byte, char, int, float, double,
long, short which are not objects.
Wrapper classes converts the java primitives into the reference types (objects). Every primitive data type has a class dedicated to
it These are known as wrapper classes because they “wrap” the primitive data type into an object of that class Refer to the below
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it. These are known as wrapper classes because they wrap the primitive data type into an object of that class. Refer to the below
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In Java, constructor refers to a block of code which is used to initialize an object. It must have the same name as that of the class.
Also, it has no return type and it is automatically called when an object is created.
1. Default constructor
2. Parameterized constructor
Q7. What is singleton class and how can we make a class singleton?
Singleton class is a class whose only one instance can be created at any given time, in one JVM. A class can be made singleton by
making its constructor private.
Array List does not define the increment size. Vector defines the increment size.
Array List can only use Iterator for traversing an Array Except Hashtable, Vector is the only other class which uses both
List. Enumeration and Iterator.
Equals() method is defined in Object class in Java and used for checking equality of two objects defined by business logic.
“==” or equality operator in Java is a binary operator provided by Java programming language and used to compare primitives
and objects. public boolean equals(Object o) is the method provided by the Object class. The default implementation uses ==
operator to compare two objects. For example: method can be overridden like String class. equals() method is used to compare the
values of two objects.
Q10. What are the differences between Heap and Stack Memory?
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Access Stack memory can’t be accessed by other threads. Objects stored in the heap are globally accessible.
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Memory Memory management is based on generation associated to
Follows LIFO manner to free memory.
Management
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and Its
Heap memory lives from the start till the end of application
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Compile time polymorphism is method overloading whereas Runtime time polymorphism is done using inheritance and interface.
In Java, runtime polymorphism or dynamic method dispatch is a process in which a call to an overridden method is resolved at
runtime rather than at compile-time. In this process, an overridden method is called through the reference variable of a
superclass. Let’s take a look at the example below to understand it better.
1 class Car {
2 void run()
3 {
4 System.out.println(“car is running”);
5 }
6 }
7 class Audi extends Car {
8 void run()
9 {
10 System.out.prinltn(“Audi is running safely with 100km”);
11 }
12 public static void main(String args[])
13 {
14 Car b new Audi(); //upcasting
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16 }
17 }
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Interfaces are slow as it requires extra indirection to find
Abstract classes are fast
corresponding method in the actual class
Method Overloading :
In Method Overloading, Methods of the same class shares the same name but each method must have different number of
parameters or parameters having different types and order.
Method Overloading is to “add” or “extend” more to method’s behavior.
It is a compile time polymorphism.
The methods must have different signature.
It may or may not need inheritance in Method Overloading.
1 class Adder {
2 Static int add(int a, int b)
3 {
4 return a+b;
5 }
6 Static double add( double a, double b)
7 {
8 return a+b;
9 }
10 public static void main(String args[])
11 {
12 System.out.println(Adder.add(11,11));
13 System.out.println(Adder.add(12.3,12.6));
14 }}
Method Overriding:
In Method Overriding, sub class have the same method with same name and exactly the same number and type of
parameters and same return type as a super class.
Method Overriding is to “Change” existing behavior of method.
It is a run time polymorphism.
The methods must have same signature.
It always requires inheritance in Method Overriding.
1 class Car {
2 void run(){
3 System.out.println(“car is running”);
4 }
5 Class Audi extends Car{
6 void run()
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10 public static void main( String args[])
11 {
12 Car b=new Audi();
13 b.run();
14 }
15 }
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You cannot override a private or static method in Java. If you create a similar method with same return type and same method
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arguments in child class then it will hide the super class method; this is known as method hiding. Similarly, you cannot override a
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2 private
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3 System.out.println("Static or class method from Base");
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4 }
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10 System.out.println("Static or class method from Derived");
11 }
12 public void print() {
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System.out.println("Non-static or instance method from Derived");
14 }
15 public class test {
16 public static void main(String args[])
17 {
18 Base obj= new Derived();
19 obj1.display();
20 obj1.print();
21 }
22 }
The problem with multiple inheritance is that if multiple parent classes have a same method name, then at
runtime it becomes difficult for the compiler to decide which method to execute from the child class.
Therefore, Java doesn’t support multiple inheritance. The problem is commonly referred as Diamond
Problem.
Association is a relationship where all object have their own lifecycle and there is no owner. Let’s take an example of Teacher and
Student. Multiple students can associate with a single teacher and a single student can associate with multiple teachers but there
is no ownership between the objects and both have their own lifecycle. These relationship can be one to one, One to many, many
to one and many to many.
Aggregation is a specialized form of Association where all object have their own lifecycle but there is ownership and child object
can not belongs to another parent object. Let’s take an example of Department and teacher. A single teacher can not belongs to
multiple departments, but if we delete the department teacher object will not destroy.
Composition is again specialized form of Aggregation and we can call this as a “death” relationship. It is a strong type of
Aggregation. Child object dose not have their lifecycle and if parent object deletes all child object will also be deleted. Let’s take
again an example of relationship between House and rooms. House can contain multiple rooms there is no independent life of
room and any room can not belongs to two different house if we delete the house room will automatically delete.
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Q1. What is a servlet?
Java Servlet is server side technologies to extend the capability of web servers by providing support for dynamic response
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and data persistence.
The javax.servlet and javax.servlet.http packages provide interfaces and classes for writing our own servlets.
All servlets must implement the javax.servlet.Servlet interface, which defines servlet lifecycle methods. When implementing
a generic service, we can extend the GenericServlet class provided with the Java Servlet API. The HttpServlet class provides
methods, such as doGet() and doPost(), for handling HTTP-specific services.
Most of the times, web applications are accessed using HTTP protocol and thats why we mostly extend HttpServlet class.
Servlet API hierarchy is shown in below image.
Q2. What are the differences between Get and Post methods?
Get Post
Limited amount of data can be sent because data is sent in
Large amount of data can be sent because data is sent in body.
header.
Not Secured because data is exposed in URL bar. Secured because data is not exposed in URL bar.
Idempotent Non-Idempotent
It is more efficient and used than Post It is less efficient and used
RequestDispatcher interface is used to forward the request to another resource that can be HTML, JSP or another servlet in same
application. We can also use this to include the content of another resource to the response.
1 void forward()
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Q4. What are the differences between forward() method and sendRedirect() methods?
forward() method works at server side. sendRedirect() method works at client side.
forward() method works within the server only. sendRedirect() method works within and outside the server.
1. Servlet is loaded
2. Servlet is instantiated
3. Servlet is initialized
4. Service the request
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Cookies are text data sent by server to the client and it gets saved at the client local machine.
Servlet
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HttpServletRequest getCookies() method is provided to get the array of Cookies from request, since there is no point of adding
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getter methods for cookie.
Its like local parameter associated with particular servlet Its like global parameter associated with whole application
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It’s a name value pair defined inside the servlet section of ServletContext has application wide scope so define outside of
web.xml file so it has servlet wide scope servlet tag in web.xml file.
getServletConfig() method is used to get the config object getServletContext() method is used to get the context object.
for example shopping cart of a user is a specific to particular To get the MIME type of a file or application session related
user so here we can use servlet config information is stored using servlet context object.
Session is a conversational state between client and server and it can consists of multiple request and response between client and
server. Since HTTP and Web Server both are stateless, the only way to maintain a session is when some unique information about
the session (session id) is passed between server and client in every request and response.
1. User Authentication
2. HTML Hidden Field
3. Cookies
4. URL Rewriting
5. Session Management API
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10 Reasons the steps to connect to a database in java?
The java.sql package contains interfaces and classes for JDBC API.
Interfaces:
Connection
Statement
PreparedStatement
ResultSet
ResultSetMetaData
DatabaseMetaData
CallableStatement etc.
Classes:
DriverManager
Blob
Clob
Types
SQLException etc.
The DriverManager class manages the registered drivers. It can be used to register and unregister drivers. It provides factory
method that returns the instance of Connection.
The Connection interface maintains a session with the database. It can be used for transaction management. It provides factory
methods that returns the instance of Statement, PreparedStatement, CallableStatement and DatabaseMetaData.
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Q9.
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10 Reasons do you mean by batch processing in JDBC?
Batch processing helps you to group related SQL statements into a batch and execute them instead of executing a single query. By
using batch processing technique in JDBC, you can execute multiple queries which makes the performance faster.
Statement execute(String query) is used to execute any SQL query and it returns TRUE if the result is an ResultSet such as
running Select queries. The output is FALSE when there is no ResultSet object such as running Insert or Update queries. We can
use getResultSet() to get the ResultSet and getUpdateCount() method to retrieve the update count.
Statement executeQuery(String query) is used to execute Select queries and returns the ResultSet. ResultSet returned is never
null even if there are no records matching the query. When executing select queries we should use executeQuery method so that if
someone tries to execute insert/update statement it will throw java.sql.SQLException with message “executeQuery method can not
be used for update”.
Statement executeUpdate(String query) is used to execute Insert/Update/Delete (DML) statements or DDL statements that returns
nothing. The output is int and equals to the row count for SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements. For DDL
statements, the output is 0.
You should use execute() method only when you are not sure about the type of statement else use executeQuery or executeUpdate
method.
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Wikipedia defines the Spring framework as “an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform.
The framework’s core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top
of the Java EEplatform.” Spring is essentially a lightweight, integrated framework that can be used for developing enterprise
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@Required
@Autowired
@Qualifier
@Resource
@PostConstruct
@PreDestroy
Q4. Explain Bean in Spring and List the different Scopes of Spring bean.
Beans are objects that form the backbone of a Spring application. They are managed by the Spring IoC container. In other words, a
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Global-session: This is used to create global session beans for Portlet applications.
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Q5. Explain the role of DispatcherServlet and ContextLoaderListener.
DispatcherServlet is basically the front controller in the Spring MVC application as it loads the spring bean configuration file and
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annotated with @Component, @Controller, @Repository or @Service annotations.
ContextLoaderListener, on the other hand, is the listener to start up and shut down the WebApplicationContext in Spring root.
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Spring MVC Framework provides the following ways to help us achieving robust exception handling.
Controller Based:
We can define exception handler methods in our controller classes. All we need is to annotate these methods with
@ExceptionHandler annotation.
Exception Handling is a cross-cutting concern and Spring provides @ControllerAdvice annotation that we can use with any class
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HandlerExceptionResolver implementation:
For generic exceptions, most of the times we serve static pages. Spring Framework provides HandlerExceptionResolver interface
that we can implement to create global exception handler. The reason behind this additional way to define global exception
handler is that Spring framework also provides default implementation classes that we can define in our spring bean
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Q9. What are some of the important Spring annotations which you have used?
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@ResponseBody – for sending Object as response, usually for sending XML or JSON data as response.
@PathVariable – for mapping dynamic values from the URI to handler method arguments.
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1 class FinalVarExample {
2 public static void main( String args[])
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4 final int a=10; // Final variable
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