Behavioral Java Developer Interview Preparation Guide

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Heavy weight components like Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), depend on the local windowing toolkit. For example, java.awt.Button is a heavy weight component, when it is running on the Java platform for Unix platform, it maps to a real Motif button. In this relationship, the Motif button is called the peer to the java.awt.Button. If you create two Buttons, two peers and hence two Motif Buttons are also created. The Java platform communicates with the Motif Buttons using the Java Native Interface. For each and every component added to the application, there is an additional overhead tied to the local windowing system, which is why these components are called heavyweight.

If an expression involving the Boolean & operator is evaluated, both operands are evaluated. Then the & operator is applied to the operand. When an expression involving the && operator is evaluated, the first operand is evaluated. If the first operand returns a value of true then the second operand is evaluated. The && operator is then applied to the first and second operands. If the first operand evaluates to false, the evaluation of the second operand is skipped.
Operator & has no chance to skip both sides evaluation and && operator does. If asked why, give details as above.

No, it doesn't. It is possible for programs to use up memory resources faster than they are garbage collected. It is also possible for programs to create objects that are not subject to garbage collection.

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

Java uses layout managers to lay out components in a consistent manner across all windowing platforms. Since Java's layout managers aren't tied to absolute sizing and positioning, they are able to accommodate platform-specific differences among windowing systems.

A component can handle its own events by implementing the required event-listener interface and adding itself as its own event listener.

The primitive types are byte, char, short, int, long, float, double, and boolean.

The Reader/Writer class hierarchy is character-oriented, and the InputStream/OutputStream class hierarchy is byte-oriented.

A class does not inherit constructors from any of its superclasses.

The Map interface replaces the JDK 1.1 Dictionary class and is used associate keys with values.

A class that is declared without any access modifiers is said to have package or friendly access. This means that the class can only be accessed by other classes and interfaces that are defined within the same package.

A catch clause can catch any exception that may be assigned to the Throwable type. This includes the Error and Exception types.

Under preemptive scheduling, the highest priority task executes until it enters the waiting or dead states or a higher priority task comes into existence. Under time slicing, a task executes for a predefined slice of time and then reenters the pool of ready tasks. The scheduler then determines which task should execute next, based on priority and other factors.

If a thread attempts to execute a synchronized method or synchronized statement and is unable to acquire an object's lock, it enters the waiting state until the lock becomes available.

The FontMetrics class is used to define implementation-specific properties, such as ascent and descent, of a Font object.

The peerless components are called light weight components.

javax.Swing package. All components in Swing, except JApplet, JDialog, JFrame and JWindow are lightweight components in Java Programming.

An object reference be cast to an interface reference when the object implements the referenced interface.

The Frame class extends Window to define a main application window that can have a menu bar.

A non-static inner class may have object instances that are associated with instances of the class's outer class. A static inner class does not have any object instances.

An object's lock is a mechanism that is used by multiple threads to obtain synchronized access to the object. A thread may execute a synchronized method of an object only after it has acquired the object's lock. All objects and classes have locks. A class's lock is acquired on the class's Class object.

An abstract method is a method whose implementation is deferred to a subclass in Java Programming.

The high-level thread states are ready, running, waiting, and dead.

It must provide all of the methods in the interface and identify the interface in its implements clause.

The wait(),notify(), and notifyAll() methods are used to provide an efficient way for threads to communicate each other in Java Programming.