In order to help candidates throughout the preparation process, we gathered more than 40 commonly asked interview questions for Java developer job candidates. For additional interview tips have a look at our video on how to prepare for an interview:
Technical java developer interview questions
- What is Dependency Injection (IOC)?
- What are the three different types of IOC?
- What are the advantages to using IOC?
- What is the Spring?
- What are the benefits of Spring framework?
- What features does Spring have?
- How many modules are there in Spring and what are they?
- Explain Bean Factory.
- What do you understand by Application Context?
- Describe the difference between Bean Factory and Application Context.
- What does Bean Wiring mean?
- What does Auto Wiring mean?
- Can Java Server Faces be integrated with Spring? How?
- How do you integrate your Struts application with Spring?
- What are the supports of ORM’s Spring?
- How can you access Hibernate using Spring?
- In Spring, how is AOP used?
- What types of transaction management does Spring support?
- Why do most users of the Spring Framework choose declarative transaction management?
- What are the similarities and differences between EJB CMT and the Spring Framework declarative transaction management?
- When is it a good idea to use programmatic transaction management as opposed to declarative transaction management?
- What does Spring DAO support do? State the modules in Spring and their purpose. What does Spring implementation look like?
- Define DelegatingVariableResolver.
- Is it possible to have a mycontext.xml file instead of applicationcontext.xml?
- In Spring, how do you setup MessageSources?
- In Spring, what is JdbcTemplate?
- What are the different types of Dependency Injection?
- How can Spring’s Configuration xmls be integrated with web applications?
- How do you integrate multiple bean configuration xmls?
- Describe autowiring.
- State the different modes of autowiring.
- State the different bean scopes available to configure.
- Describe the default scope in Spring.
- In bean definition, how do you implement inheritance?
- What is the difference between FileSystemResource and ClassPathResource?
- In Spring, what are inner beans?
- What is Aspect Orientated Programming (AOP) and how is it used in Spring?
- In regards to AOP, what does aspect mean?
- What are the different types of Advice?
- What is a pointcut?
- Identify the different values a View element can have.
- What basic elements does ModelAndView instance contain?
- How is data validation handled while using Spring Web WVC?
- State the ways one can achieve view resolution in Spring Web WVC.
- In Spring MVC architecture, what represents a Model?
- What is AOP Proxy?
Personal Java spring developer job interview questions
- Describe yourself professionally in a few words.
- In our industry, what are some important trends that you see?
- How capable do you think you are at handling stress?
- What are your reasons for leaving your previous/present job?
- What is your favourite aspect of being a java spring developer?
- How do you remain abreast of new developments in technology?
Scenario interview questions
- What is your troubleshooting process?
- Would you describe yourself as a problem solver? If so, why? Can you give any example
The company interview questions
- Why do you want to work for this organisation?
- What do you know about our company and our products?
Career spring interview questions
- In two or three years from now, what do you see yourself doing?
- Describe two or three of your accomplishments over the past few years that you are most proud of.
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