Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Traps in SCJP exam

What are the potential trips/traps in SCJP exam?

Answer: Provided by Ajith Kallambella (From Java Ranch: http://www.javaranch.com)

  • Two public classes in the same file.

  • Main method calling a non-static method.

  • Methods with the same name as the constructor(s).

  • Thread initiation with classes that dont have a run() method.

  • Local inner classes trying to access non-final vars.

  • Case statements with values out of permissible range.

  • Math class being an option for immutable classes !!

  • instanceOf is not same as instanceof

  • Private constructors

  • An assignment statement which looks like a comparison if ( a=true)...

  • System.exit() in try-catch-finally blocks.

  • Uninitialized variable references with no path of proper initialization.

  • Order of try-catch-finally blocks matters.

  • main() can be declared final.

  • -0.0 == 0.0 is true.

  • A class without abstract methods can still be declared abstract.

  • RandomAccessFile descends from Object and implements DataInput and DataOutput.

  • Map doesnot implement Collection.

  • Dictionary is a class, not an interface.

  • Collection is an Interface where as Collections is a helper class.

  • Class declarations can come in any order ( derived first, base next etc. ).

  • Forward references to variables gives compiler error.

  • Multi dimensional arrays can be sparce ie., if you imagine the array as a matrix, every row need not have the same number of columns.

  • Arrays, whether local or class-level, are always initialized,

  • Strings are initialized to null, not empty string.

  • An empty string is NOT the same as a null string.

  • A declaration cannot be labelled.

  • continue must be in a loop( for, do , while ). It cannot appear in case constructs.

  • Primitive array types can never be assigned to each other, eventhough the primitives themselves can be assigned. ie., ArrayofLongPrimitives = ArrayofIntegerPrimitives gives compiler error eventhough longvar = intvar is perfectly valid.

  • A constructor can throw any exception.

  • Initilializer blocks are executed in the order of declaration.

  • Instance initializer(s) gets executed ONLY IF the objects are constructed.

  • All comparisons involving NaN and a non-Nan would always result false.

  • Default type of a numeric literal with a decimal point is double.

  • integer (and long ) operations / and % can throw ArithmeticException while float / and % will never, even in case of division by zero.

  • == gives compiler error if the operands are cast-incompatible.

  • You can never cast objects of sibling classes( sharing the same parent ), even with an explicit cast.

  • .equals returns false if the object types are different.It does not raise a compiler error.

  • No inner class can have a static member.

  • File class has NO methods to deal with the contents of the file.

  • InputStream and OutputStream are abstract classes, while DataInput and DataOutput are interfaces.

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