Technology Questions

State is quite an innovative concept in Web development because it eliminates the drawback of losing state data due to reloading of a Web page. By using states in a Web application, you can preserve the state of the application either at the server or client end. The state of a Web application helps you to store the runtime changes that have been made to the Web application. For example, as already described earlier, a change in the data source of the Web application might be initiated by a user when he/she selects and saves some products in the shopping cart.

If you are not using states, these changes are discarded and are not saved. You may think that the whole concept of storing states is optional. However, under certain circumstances, using states with applications is imperative. For example, it is necessary to store states for Web applications, such as an e-commerce shopping site or an Intranet site of a company, to keep track of the requests of the users for the items they have selected on the shopping site or the days requested for vacation on the Intranet site.

Use case diagram, activity diagram, Collaboration diagram. 

Use case diagram :

It describes the business environment. Its primary goal is to show the series of events and actions within any given process that will be performed by an actor.  

Activity diagram:

The activity diagram is important because it gives an outline of the work flow within the business as well as the activities and action completed. 

For instance with a company, there is likely to be more than one department. In such a case each department, will have different access levels to the system. 

So if there’s a Medical, HR and Accounts team they will only have access to screens that relate to each. 

The activity diagram will highlight the differences within the departments which will be very helpful for developers when they are designing and coding. 

Collaboration diagram:

A collaboration diagram, also called a communication diagram or interaction diagram, is an illustration of the relationships and interactions among software objects in the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The concept is more than a decade old although it has been refined as modeling paradigms have evolved. 

Following are the benefits of data integration:

- Makes reporting, monitoring, placing customer information across the enterprise flexible and convenient.

- Data usage is efficient.

- Cost Effective.

- Risk adjusted profitability management as it allows accurate data extraction.

- Allows timely and reliable reporting, as data quality is the prime technology for business challenges.

DB2 precompiler (if embedded sql used), CICS translator (if CICS program), COBOL compiler, Link editor. If DB2 program, create plan by binding the DBRMs.

The C++ programming technique allows defining user defined datatypes through structure. The

syntax to declare structure is as follows:

struct student

{

char name[100]

char address[250]

};

echo() and print() are language constructs in PHP, both are used to output strings. The speed of both statements is almost the same.

echo() can take multiple expressions whereas print cannot take multiple expressions.

Print return true or false based on success or failure whereas echo doesn't return true or false.

PL/SQL exceptions are raised using the RAISE command. This command is used when exceptions are defined by programmer and not implicit exceptions.

Example:

Declare and raising an exception:

DECLARE

short_of_attendance EXCEPTION;

min_attendance NUMBER(4);

BEGIN

...

IF min_attendance < 10 THEN

RAISE short_of_attendance;

END IF;

EXCEPTION

WHEN short_of_attendance THEN

-- handle the error

END;

A constructor is a member function of a class that is used to create objects of that class. It has the same name as the class itself, has no return type, and is invoked using the new operator. We cannot invoke a constructor directly.

A method is an ordinary member function of a class. It has its own name, a return type (which may be void), and is invoked using the dot operator.