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What is a task's priority and how is it used in scheduling?
What is a task's priority and how is it used in scheduling? A task's priority is an integer value that identifies the relative order in which it should be executed with respect to other tasks. The scheduler attempts to schedule higher priority tasks before lower priority tasks.
2012-10-12, 2602👍, 0💬

What are order of precedence and associativity, and how are they used?
What are order of precedence and associativity, and how are they used? Order of precedence determines the order in which operators are evaluated in expressions. Associatity determines whether an expression is evaluated left-to-right or right-to-left
2012-10-09, 2602👍, 0💬

What is a native method?
What is a native method? A native method is a method that is implemented in a language other than Java.
2012-10-08, 2602👍, 0💬

What method must be implemented by all threads?
What method must be implemented by all threads? All tasks must implement the run() method, whether they are a subclass of Thread or implement the Runnable interface.
2013-06-17, 2601👍, 0💬

Which method of the Component class is used to set the position and size of a component?
Which method of the Component class is used to set the position and size of a component? setBounds()
2012-09-27, 2600👍, 0💬

What are some alternatives to inheritance?
What are some alternatives to inheritance? Delegation is an alternative to inheritance. Delegation means that you include an instance of another class as an instance variable, and forward messages to the instance. It is often safer than inheritance because it forces you to think about each message y...
2013-02-08, 2599👍, 0💬

Which containers use a FlowLayout as their default layout?
Which containers use a FlowLayout as their default layout? The Panel and Applet classes use the FlowLayout as their default layout.
2012-09-20, 2598👍, 0💬

What is the difference between an Interface and an Abstract class?
What is the difference between an Interface and an Abstract class? An abstract class can have instance methods that implement a default behavior. An Interface can only declare constants and instance methods, but cannot implement default behavior and all methods are implicitly abstract. An interface ...
2013-04-22, 2596👍, 0💬

How to check two arrays to see if contents have the same types and contain the same elements?
How to check two arrays to see if contents have the same types and contain the same elements? One of options is to use the equals() method of Arrays class. Arrays.equals(a, b); If the array types are different, a compile-time error will happen.
2012-09-06, 2596👍, 0💬

What are pass by reference and passby value?
What are pass by reference and passby value? 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.
2013-04-24, 2595👍, 0💬

This class (IncrementImpl) will be used by various threads concurrently; can you see the inherent flaw(s)? How would you improve
This class (IncrementImpl) will be used by various threads concurrently; can you see the inherent flaw(s)? How would you improve it? public class IncrementImpl { private static int counter = 0; public synchronized void increment() { counter++; } public int getCounter() { return counter; } } The coun...
2012-08-28, 2592👍, 0💬

What are the legal operands of the instanceof operator?
What are the legal operands of the instanceof operator? The left operand is an object reference or null value and the right operand is a class, interface, or array type.
2013-01-01, 2591👍, 0💬

What is clipping?
What is clipping? Clipping is the process of confining paint operations to a limited area or shape.
2012-10-08, 2591👍, 0💬

What are some alternatives to inheritance?
What are some alternatives to inheritance? Delegation is an alternative to inheritance. Delegation means that you include an instance of another class as an instance variable, and forward messages to the instance. It is often safer than inheritance because it forces you to think about each message y...
2013-06-19, 2590👍, 0💬

What is the return type of a program's main() method?
What is the return type of a program's main() method? A program's main() method has a void return type.
2012-12-21, 2590👍, 0💬

What is the Locale class?
What is the Locale class? The Locale class is used to tailor program output to the conventions of a particular geographic, political, or cultural region.
2012-10-25, 2590👍, 0💬

which characters may be used as the second character of an identifier, but not as the first character of an identifier?
which characters may be used as the second character of an identifier, but not as the first character of an identifier? The digits 0 through 9 may not be used as the first character of an identifier but they may be used after the first character of an identifier.
2012-09-21, 2590👍, 0💬

How to create custom exceptions?
How to create custom exceptions? Your class should extend class Exception, or some more specific type thereof.
2013-05-29, 2589👍, 0💬

What is the difference between a Scrollbar and a ScrollPane?
What is the difference between a Scrollbar and a ScrollPane? A Scrollbar is a Component, but not a Container. A ScrollPane is a Container. A ScrollPane handles its own events and performs its own scrolling.
2013-04-05, 2588👍, 0💬

What is the difference between preemptive scheduling and time slicing?
What is the difference between preemptive scheduling and time slicing? 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 the...
2012-10-04, 2585👍, 0💬

When can an object reference be cast to an interface reference?
When can an object reference be cast to an interface reference? An object reference can be cast to an interface reference when the object implements the referenced interface.
2012-07-13, 2584👍, 0💬

What is the common usage of serialization?
What is the common usage of serialization? Whenever an object is to be sent over the network, objects need to be serialized. Moreover if the state of an object is to be saved, objects need to be serilazed.
2013-05-21, 2580👍, 0💬

What is the argument type of a program's main() method?
What is the argument type of a program's main() method? A program's main() method takes an argument of the String[] type.
2012-10-24, 2579👍, 0💬

Does garbage collection guarantee that a program will not run out of memory?
Does garbage collection guarantee that a program will not run out of memory? Garbage collection does not guarantee that a program will not run out of memory. It is possible for programs to use up memory resources faster than they are garbage collected. It is also possible for programs to create obje...
2013-06-06, 2577👍, 0💬

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