Technology Questions

A function prototype is a declaration of a function that omits the function body. It specifies the function’s name, argument types and return type.

E.g. int add(int,int)

• //               is a single line comment
• /*  */          is commenting on one or more lines
• /** */         is documentation comment

DispatchAction is an action that comes with Struts 1.1 or later, that let us combine Struts actions into single class, each with their own method. The org.apache.struts.action.DispatchAction class allows multiple operations to map to the different functions in the same Action class.

For e:g; html:hidden property="dispatch" value="error"/>

<SCRIPT>function set(target) {document. forms[0].dispatch. value=target;}</SCRIPT>

Following are the steps to create a simple AD rotator script without using database in PHP:

- All the ad’s can be collected in one place and be displayed randomly.rand() function can be used for this purpose.

- In order to NOT use any database, a flat file can be used to store the ad’s.

- In order to store the Ad’s information (HTML code), a flat file say “ad.txt” can be created.

- The random number can be stored in a variable 

$result_random=rand(1, 100);

- Conditions can be checked to display the ad’s.

if($result_random<=70)

{

      echo "Display ad1";

}

An interface without having any methods and by implementing that interface if our objects will get same ability such type interfaces are called marker interface (or) ability interface (or) tag interface

A keyword that specifies that types in a particular nemespace can be referred to without requiring their full qualified type names. 'using' reserved word always come with namespaces. eg. using systems so because of this useful classes supplied by Microsoft which are contained by system namespace are availble for user.

An OLE server application creates ole Objects that are embedded or linked in OLE Containers ex. OLE servers are ms_word & ms_excel. OLE containers provide a place to store, display and manipulate objects that are created by ole server applications. Ex. oracle forms is an example of an OLE Container.

ESDS: Entry Sequence Data Set

KSDS: Key Sequence Data Set

RRDS: Relative Data Set