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25 May 2008

J2EE Interview Questions 3

What is ISO 3166
The international standard for country codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

What is ISV
Independent software vendor.

What is J2EE
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition.

What is J2EE application
Any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. J2EE applications are typically engineered to be distributed across multiple computing tiers.

What is J2EE component
A self-contained functional software unit supported by a container and configurable at deployment time. The J2EE specification defines the following J2EE components:
Application clients and applets are components that run on the client.
Java servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology components are Web components that run on the server.
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components (enterprise beans) are business components that run on the server.
J2EE components are written in the Java programming language and are compiled in the same way as any program in the language. The difference between J2EE components and "standard" Java classes is that J2EE components are assembled into a J2EE application, verified to be well formed and in compliance with the J2EE specification, and deployed to production, where they are run and managed by the J2EE server or client container.
What is J2EE module
A software unit that consists of one or more J2EE components of the same container type and one deployment descriptor of that type. There are four types of modules: EJB, Web, application client, and resource adapter. Modules can be deployed as stand-alone units or can be assembled into a J2EE application.

What is J2EE product
An implementation that conforms to the J2EE platform specification.

What is J2EE product provider
A vendor that supplies a J2EE product.

What is J2EE server
The runtime portion of a J2EE product. A J2EE server provides EJB or Web containers or both.

What is J2ME
Abbreviate of Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition.

What is J2SE
Abbreviate of Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition.

What is JAR
Java archive. A platform-independent file format that permits many files to be aggregated into one file. What is Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
An environment for developing and deploying enterprise applications. The J2EE platform consists of a set of services, application programming interfaces (APIs), and protocols that provide the functionality for developing multitiered, Web-based applications.

What is Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME)
A highly optimized Java runtime environment targeting a wide range of consumer products, including pagers, cellular phones, screen phones, digital set-top boxes, and car navigation systems.

What is Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
The core Java technology platform.

What is Java API for XML Processing (JAXP)
An API for processing XML documents. JAXP leverages the parser standards SAX and DOM so that you can choose to parse your data as a stream of events or to build a tree-structured representation of it. JAXP supports the XSLT standard, giving you control over the presentation of the data and enabling you to convert the data to other XML documents or to other formats, such as HTML. JAXP provides namespace support, allowing you to work with schema that might otherwise have naming conflicts.

What is Java API for XML Registries (JAXR)
An API for accessing various kinds of XML registries.

What is Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC)
An API for building Web services and clients that use remote procedure calls and XML. What is Java IDL
A technology that provides CORBA interoperability and connectivity capabilities for the J2EE platform. These capabilities enable J2EE applications to invoke operations on remote network services using the Object Management Group IDL and IIOP.

What is Java Message Service (JMS)
An API for invoking operations on enterprise messaging systems.

What is Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)
An API that provides naming and directory functionality.

What is Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE)
A set of packages that enable secure Internet communications.

What is Java Transaction API (JTA)
An API that allows applications and J2EE servers to access transactions.

What is Java Transaction Service (JTS)
Specifies the implementation of a transaction manager that supports JTA and implements the Java mapping of the Object Management Group Object Transaction Service 1.1 specification at the level below the API.

What is JavaBeans component
A Java class that can be manipulated by tools and composed into applications. A JavaBeans component must adhere to certain property and event interface conventions.
What is JavaMail
An API for sending and receiving email.

What is JavaServer Faces Technology
A framework for building server-side user interfaces for Web applications written in the Java programming language.

What is JavaServer Faces conversion model
A mechanism for converting between string-based markup generated by JavaServer Faces UI components and server-side Java objects.

What is JavaServer Faces event and listener model
A mechanism for determining how events emitted by JavaServer Faces UI components are handled. This model is based on the JavaBeans component event and listener model.

What is JavaServer Faces expression language
A simple expression language used by a JavaServer Faces UI component tag attributes to bind the associated component to a bean property or to bind the associated component's value to a method or an external data source, such as a bean property. Unlike JSP EL expressions, JavaServer Faces EL expressions are evaluated by the JavaServer Faces implementation rather than by the Web container.

What is JavaServer Faces navigation model
A mechanism for defining the sequence in which pages in a JavaServer Faces application are displayed.

What is JavaServer Faces UI component
A user interface control that outputs data to a client or allows a user to input data to a JavaServer Faces application.
What is JavaServer Faces UI component class
A JavaServer Faces class that defines the behavior and properties of a JavaServer Faces UI component.

What is JavaServer Faces validation model
A mechanism for validating the data a user inputs to a JavaServer Faces UI component.

What is JavaServer Pages (JSP)
An extensible Web technology that uses static data, JSP elements, and server-side Java objects to generate dynamic content for a client. Typically the static data is HTML or XML elements, and in many cases the client is a Web browser.

What is JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
A tag library that encapsulates core functionality common to many JSP applications. JSTL has support for common, structural tasks such as iteration and conditionals, tags for manipulating XML documents, internationalization and locale-specific formatting tags, SQL tags, and functions.

What is JAXR client
A client program that uses the JAXR API to access a business registry via a JAXR provider.

What is JAXR provider
An implementation of the JAXR API that provides access to a specific registry provider or to a class of registry providers that are based on a common specification.

What is JDBC
An API for database-independent connectivity between the J2EE platform and a wide range of data sources.

What is JMS
Java Message Service.
What is JMS administered object
A preconfigured JMS object (a resource manager connection factory or a destination) created by an administrator for the use of JMS clients and placed in a JNDI namespace.

What is JMS application
One or more JMS clients that exchange messages.

What is JMS client
A Java language program that sends or receives messages.

What is JMS provider
A messaging system that implements the Java Message Service as well as other administrative and control functionality needed in a full-featured messaging product.

What is JMS session
A single-threaded context for sending and receiving JMS messages. A JMS session can be nontransacted, locally transacted, or participating in a distributed transaction.

What is JNDI
Abbreviate of Java Naming and Directory Interface.

What is JSP
Abbreviate of JavaServer Pages.

What is JSP action
A JSP element that can act on implicit objects and other server-side objects or can define new scripting variables. Actions follow the XML syntax for elements, with a start tag, a body, and an end tag; if the body is empty it can also use the empty tag syntax. The tag must use a prefix. There are standard and custom actions.
What is JSP container
A container that provides the same services as a servlet container and an engine that interprets and processes JSP pages into a servlet.

What is JSP container, distributed
A JSP container that can run a Web application that is tagged as distributable and is spread across multiple Java virtual machines that might be running on different hosts.

What is JSP custom action
A user-defined action described in a portable manner by a tag library descriptor and imported into a JSP page by a taglib directive. Custom actions are used to encapsulate recurring tasks in writing JSP pages.

What is JSP custom tag
A tag that references a JSP custom action.

What is JSP declaration
A JSP scripting element that declares methods, variables, or both in a JSP page.

What is JSP directive
A JSP element that gives an instruction to the JSP container and is interpreted at translation time.

What is JSP document
A JSP page written in XML syntax and subject to the constraints of XML documents.
What is JSP element
A portion of a JSP page that is recognized by a JSP translator. An element can be a directive, an action, or a scripting element.

What is JSP expression
A scripting element that contains a valid scripting language expression that is evaluated, converted to a String, and placed into the implicit out object.

What is JSP expression language
A language used to write expressions that access the properties of JavaBeans components. EL expressions can be used in static text and in any standard or custom tag attribute that can accept an expression.

What is JSP page
A text-based document containing static text and JSP elements that describes how to process a request to create a response. A JSP page is translated into and handles requests as a servlet.

What is JSP scripting element
A JSP declaration, scriptlet, or expression whose syntax is defined by the JSP specification and whose content is written according to the scripting language used in the JSP page. The JSP specification describes the syntax and semantics for the case where the language page attribute is "java".

What is JSP scriptlet
A JSP scripting element containing any code fragment that is valid in the scripting language used in the JSP page. The JSP specification describes what is a valid scriptlet for the case where the language page attribute is "java".

What is JSP standard action
An action that is defined in the JSP specification and is always available to a JSP page.
What is JSP tag file
A source file containing a reusable fragment of JSP code that is translated into a tag handler when a JSP page is translated into a servlet.

What is JSP tag handler
A Java programming language object that implements the behavior of a custom tag.

What is JSP tag library
A collection of custom tags described via a tag library descriptor and Java classes.

What is JSTL
Abbreviate of JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library.

What is JTA
Abbreviate of Java Transaction API.

What is JTS
Abbreviate of Java Transaction Service.

What is keystore
A file containing the keys and certificates used for authentication. What is life cycle (J2EE component)
The framework events of a J2EE component's existence. Each type of component has defining events that mark its transition into states in which it has varying availability for use. For example, a servlet is created and has its init method called by its container before invocation of its service method by clients or other servlets that require its functionality. After the call of its init method, it has the data and readiness for its intended use. The servlet's destroy method is called by its container before the ending of its existence so that processing associated with winding up can be done and resources can be released. The init and destroy methods in this example are callback methods. Similar considerations apply to the life cycle of all J2EE component types: enterprise beans, Web components (servlets or JSP pages), applets, and application clients.

What is life cycle (JavaServer Faces)
A set of phases during which a request for a page is received, a UI component tree representing the page is processed, and a response is produced. During the phases of the life cycle:
The local data of the components is updated with the values contained in the request parameters.
Events generated by the components are processed.
Validators and converters registered on the components are processed.
The components' local data is updated to back-end objects.
The response is rendered to the client while the component state of the response is saved on the server for future requests.

What is local subset
That part of the DTD that is defined within the current XML file.

What is managed bean creation facility
A mechanism for defining the characteristics of JavaBeans components used in a JavaServer Faces application.

What is message
In the Java Message Service, an asynchronous request, report, or event that is created, sent, and consumed by an enterprise application and not by a human. It contains vital information needed to coordinate enterprise applications, in the form of precisely formatted data that describes specific business actions.

What is message consumer
An object created by a JMS session that is used for receiving messages sent to a destination.

What is message-driven bean
An enterprise bean that is an asynchronous message consumer. A message-driven bean has no state for a specific client, but its instance variables can contain state across the handling of client messages, including an open database connection and an object reference to an EJB object. A client accesses a message-driven bean by sending messages to the destination for which the bean is a message listener.

What is message producer
An object created by a JMS session that is used for sending messages to a destination.
What is mixed-content model
A DTD specification that defines an element as containing a mixture of text and one more other elements. The specification must start with #PCDATA, followed by diverse elements, and must end with the "zero-or-more" asterisk symbol (*).

What is method-binding expression
A JavaServer Faces EL expression that refers to a method of a backing bean. This method performs either event handling, validation, or navigation processing for the UI component whose tag uses the method-binding expression.

What is method permission
An authorization rule that determines who is permitted to execute one or more enterprise bean methods.

What is mutual authentication
An authentication mechanism employed by two parties for the purpose of proving each other's identity to one another.

What is namespace
A standard that lets you specify a unique label for the set of element names defined by a DTD. A document using that DTD can be included in any other document without having a conflict between element names. The elements defined in your DTD are then uniquely identified so that, for example, the parser can tell when an element should be interpreted according to your DTD rather than using the definition for an element in a different DTD.

What is naming context
A set of associations between unique, atomic, people-friendly identifiers and objects.

What is naming environment
A mechanism that allows a component to be customized without the need to access or change the component's source code. A container implements the component's naming environment and provides it to the component as a JNDI naming context. Each component names and accesses its environment entries using the java:comp/env JNDI context. The environment entries are declaratively specified in the component's deployment descriptor.
What is normalization
The process of removing redundancy by modularizing, as with subroutines, and of removing superfluous differences by reducing them to a common denominator. For example, line endings from different systems are normalized by reducing them to a single new line, and multiple whitespace characters are normalized to one space.

What is North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
A system for classifying business establishments based on the processes they use to produce goods or services.

What is notation
A mechanism for defining a data format for a non-XML document referenced as an unparsed entity. This is a holdover from SGML. A newer standard is to use MIME data types and namespaces to prevent naming conflicts.

What is OASIS
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. A consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. Its Web site is http://www.oasis-open.org/. The DTD repository it sponsors is at http://www.XML.org.

What is OMG
Object Management Group. A consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. Its Web site is http://www.omg.org/.

What is one-way messaging
A method of transmitting messages without having to block until a response is received.

What is ORB
Object request broker. A library that enables CORBA objects to locate and communicate with one another. What is OS principal
A principal native to the operating system on which the J2EE platform is executing.

What is OTS
Object Transaction Service. A definition of the interfaces that permit CORBA objects to participate in transactions.

What is parameter entity
An entity that consists of DTD specifications, as distinct from a general entity. A parameter entity defined in the DTD can then be referenced at other points, thereby eliminating the need to recode the definition at each location it is used.

What is parsed entity
A general entity that contains XML and therefore is parsed when inserted into the XML document, as opposed to an unparsed entity.

What is parser
A module that reads in XML data from an input source and breaks it into chunks so that your program knows when it is working with a tag, an attribute, or element data. A nonvalidating parser ensures that the XML data is well formed but does not verify that it is valid. See also validating parser.

What is passivation
The process of transferring an enterprise bean from memory to secondary storage. See activation.

What is persistence
The protocol for transferring the state of an entity bean between its instance variables and an underlying database.
What is persistent field
A virtual field of an entity bean that has container-managed persistence; it is stored in a database.

What is POA
Portable Object Adapter. A CORBA standard for building server-side applications that are portable across heterogeneous ORBs.

What is point-to-point messaging system
A messaging system built on the concept of message queues. Each message is addressed to a specific queue; clients extract messages from the queues established to hold their messages.

What is primary key
An object that uniquely identifies an entity bean within a home.

What is principal
The identity assigned to a user as a result of authentication.

What is privilege
A security attribute that does not have the property of uniqueness and that can be shared by many principals.

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