Interview Questions

Autoboxing is the process of converting a primitive type data into its corresponding wrapper class object instance.

Example:

Integer number = new Integer (100); // number is now refers to the object 100

Unboxing is the process of converting a wrapper instance into a primitive type.

Example: 

Integer number = new Integer (100); 

int num = number;// without type casting number would be changed into int type

A thread is a lightweight subprocess, a smallest unit of processing. It is a separate path of execution. It shares the memory area of process.

As shown in the above figure, thread is executed inside the process. There is context-switching between the threads. There can be multiple processes inside the OS and one process can have multiple threads.

Assembly Manifest is a file that contains data that describes how the elements present inside an assembly are connected to each other. The assembly manifest contains assembly metadata to define the scope of the assembly and resolve references to resources and classes.

Dynamic binding is orthogonal to dynamic linking. Binding refers to the linking of a procedure call to the code to be executed in response to the call. Dynamic binding It is associated with polymorphism and inheritance, it(also known as late binding) means that the code associated with a given procedure call is not known until the time of the call at run-time.

Top level class is also called outer class. It is not defined inside any class.

Ex:

class A {  //top level class

}

In a database table, the category of information is called Field.

Transfer payments are included in GDP and not in GDP.

To use an iterator to traverse through the contents of a collection, follow these steps:

- Obtain an iterator to the start of the collection by calling the collections iterator() method.

- Set up a loop that makes a call to hasNext(). Have the loop iterate as long as hasNext() returns true.

- Within the loop, obtain each element by calling next().