Technology Questions

JDBC technology is an API (included in both J2SE and J2EE releases) that provides cross-DBMS connectivity to a wide range of SQL databases and access to other tabular data sources, such as spreadsheets or flat files. With a JDBC technology-enabled driver, you can connect all corporate data even in a heterogeneous environment.

Pass By Reference means the passing the address itself rather than passing the value. Passby Value means passing a copy of the value to be passed.

If we print any object by using println() or print() methods.

The println() or print() methods internally calls tostring() method and prints the return value of toString() method.

Recovery/error testing is testing how well a system recovers from crashes, hardware failures, or other catastrophic problems.

File[] listFiles();

this method returns list of files stored in a directory.

An abstract class is an incomplete class. An abstract class is defined with the keyword abstract . We cannot create an object of the abstract class because it is not complete. It sets a behavioral protocol for all its child classes.

We can use the following method call:

boolean createNewFile();

This method creates a new file on the HD. 

If a file is already existing with the name given in the constructor then this method does not creates file on HD.

If file is successfully created then this method returns true.

If file is already existing on the HD then this method returns false.

This method may throw IOException whenever IO error is generated while creating file on HD.

The android system will keep all the process that are hosting the services together at one place till the time the service is not started or connected to the client. The priority of the process is divided when running low on memory or when the process has to be killed. The process lifecycle is as follows:
- The service is running currently then the methods onCreate(), onStartCommand(), and onDestroy()methods, will run in the foreground to execute the process without being killed.
- The service is already started then the process can be considered as less important then the processes that are currently visible and used. This is done as there are only few processes that are visible to the users on the screen.
- The clients are bounded to the services they are providing requires more priority in the execution list.
- The service that is started uses startForeground(int, Notification)API to allow all the services to run in the foreground state. The system considers only the services where the user is still active as the services not to be killed.