Xebia

Date: 5 November 2015
Telephonic

Java:

1. Difference between List and Set?
2. How does Set ensure unique values?
3. What if I want to add multiple objects with same values to Set (or something like that).
4. Why hashcode() when equals is already there?
5. Difference between HashMap and HashTable?
6. Which of them takes "null" value for key?
7. What if two objects with same values are pushed in HashMap?
8. Why should the HashMap key be immutable?
9. What are immutable object? Example in java.
10. How many objects are created for different cases of String creation?
11. In what scenarios will the different String objects result true for == and equals?
12. What is Java SOLID? Hint: SOLID is an acronym.

Design Pattern:

1. Name a few.
2. What are build patterns?

Spring:

1. What is singleton?
2. What is prototype?
3. What about a singleton bean inside prototype?
4. What about a prototype beans inside singleton?
5. Bean life cycle?
6. Dispatcher servlet?
7. Entity manager at DAO?
8. Spring MVC entries.
9. What if there is a cyclic dependency between beans.
10. What is DI?