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Savitha

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Nickname: savi
Registered: Jan, 2004

EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Jan 2, 2004 11:35 AM

Hello all

Can anyone provide me with the latest interview questions and answers in EJB,J2EE technologies.

Thanks for your help
Savitha

Scott Ellsworth

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Nickname: fuz
Registered: Jan, 2004

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Jan 5, 2004 11:25 AM

I always start with the basics:

"Please describe the difference between container managed and bean managed persistence". At the least, they need to know who causes faults, and how it is handled. I will then ask which they have used, and how it worked.

For extra credit, I might describe how WebObjects, not a J2EE system, but a Java-based enterprise web app system none the less, does the same, and see if they can identify which it behaves like.

After that, I ask usage questions - how do you profile your app, how do you scale, what resources are likely to be a problem, and the like.

Finally, I ask why one might use J2EE rather than straight JDBC calls.

The persistence questions are answered by the spec, while WO is described at www.apple.com. JProfiler and OptimizeIt both list J2EE apps as part of their repertoire.

naveen kumar

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Nickname: naresh
Registered: Jan, 2004

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Jan 7, 2004 12:00 AM

Viswanatha Basavalingappa

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Nickname: viswagb
Registered: Nov, 2003

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Feb 17, 2004 1:07 AM

go thro the followng URL u can get lot of Q/A for Java Tech interivew

http://www.javacamp.org/jobinterview.html

Viswa
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Mike Sandman

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Nickname: n8behavior
Registered: Feb, 2004

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Feb 17, 2004 8:12 PM

i truely don't mean to sound smug, but if you need a "list of questions" you probably should call in your local nerd to "tech" the candidate. anyone can learn to answer canned questions. but no one can servive a good ol' fashion "geek session" if they aren't skilled.

a second option would be to ask them to take a short test from some place like brain bench.

http://www.brainbench.com

i still say "go with the geek!"

Charles Bell

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Nickname: charles
Registered: Feb, 2002

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Mar 6, 2004 11:45 AM

http://www.javacertificate.com/

Mani

Posts: 1
Nickname: bell
Registered: Mar, 2004

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Mar 16, 2004 4:34 AM

Hai
Have u got EJB J2EE questions.If u had ,Plz send it to mail.
Thanks

Scuba Steve

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Nickname: scubasteve
Registered: Jul, 2003

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Mar 18, 2004 12:53 PM

I completey agree with Mike IF you are asking for sample questions here because you plan to conduct an interview. IF you are asking because you are planning to start interviewing for positions, however, I suggest that you edit your resume immediately and remove stated knowledge of J2EE areas in which you have no expertise.

If I interview you and you claim to have expertise in various areas, I WILL find out if you are being honest. If you are not, your resume will be immediately discarded...regardless of the expertise that you DO possess. I would rather have someone come in and claim that they only know JSPs and custom tags than someone who claims they know all things J2EE only to find out that they are exagerating.

Good luck.

george lee

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Nickname: dantestein
Registered: Apr, 2004

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Apr 11, 2004 5:46 PM

You guys are so full of it. I've been in this business for over 20 years for various start ups and based on my experience, there are lot of great engineers out there who are not capable of articulating the difference between a servlet and an applet, let alone the difference between a EJB, regular java class, container class, ...

Just because a person can't memorize definitions and can't recall how certain methodology behaves based on what we decide to call them does not make them a bad programmer.

Best way to interview is to simply talk about how they handled their previous projects. Ask them what they did and have a length discussion about it. If you are a good interviewer, you should be able to grasp the project they worked on and ask intelligent questions based on what they were trying to do. It is here where you can weed out the fakes from the real engineers. If they're entry level, talk about their projects.

Don't ask them stupid questions like "what is XXX and how is it different than YYY and what is the behavior of XXX". Who gives a crap? Just look it up.

zenykx

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Nickname: zenykx
Registered: May, 2003

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Apr 13, 2004 12:26 PM

I pretty much agree with dante. I think in this job is not the memory that makes a good programmer. Discovering the fakers is easier using the previous projects policy.
After this, maybe you can find out what level of memory does the guy have/use on the technologies you are talking about but this is not a decisive action (IMO).
And finally, I think everybody's policy is the best if you get the right guys working for you.

Nishant

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Nickname: camnishant
Registered: Apr, 2004

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Apr 21, 2004 1:15 AM

Dear Savitha,

Please visit the site
"http://www.sap-img.com/java/index.htm"
you will find every material you need. This site gives lot of lot information from Basic Java to J2EE to EJB to Interview Questions and so on.

Karl Bronstein

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Nickname: newwatcher
Registered: May, 2004

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: May 14, 2004 2:19 PM

Sante, the guys are not only full of it.

Their style presumes that what is learnt over many gruelling night is all what J2EE, EJB, etc. is about. The questions are so artfully phrased to reflect recent experiences, which, while it took the interviewer weeks to resolve, he expects the inetrviewee to answer on the spot. I know. I did exactly that before I GAVE UP playing these tricks.

In most cases junior technical leads and managers tend to go to the interview to ELIMINATE the candidate, not to find out what he can BRING TO THE TABLE. Hence this rediculous game that ends up with loss of real talent due to a new form of bigotry, called professional bigotry of the low level tech leads and insecure managers.

Try finding out the capacity of the person to do the job, rather than whether he had memorized one web site answers or another. That is the way to do a job like recruiting talent. Everybody can make a candidat s*** in his/her pants, but not many can secure the best talent for the team!

babu

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Nickname: baburaju1
Registered: Apr, 2004

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: May 18, 2004 9:57 PM

Hello all

Can anyone provide me with the latest interview questions and answers in EJB,J2EE technologies.

Thanks for your help me.
babu

shyam

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Nickname: shyamji
Registered: Aug, 2004

EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Aug 24, 2004 9:22 PM

can any one provide latest faqs /intwerview question on EJB/J2EE/Java

shyamji

Jeroen Wenting

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Nickname: jwenting
Registered: Mar, 2004

Re: EJB & J2EE interview questions

Posted: Aug 25, 2004 3:14 AM

well said Karl.

What makes matters worse is that many interviews are handled purely by HR people without any tech staff present.
These people have no knowledge at all about the technical matters and will go from a prepared list of questions.
Unless the answers match the answers on that list more or less literally they judge the candidate incapable when in fact it's them who are incapable of conducting a meaningful interview.

Even worse are the so-called "aptitude tests" where you're just given a series of questions to answer and you're rejected automatically if you don't get the right answers as found in some book or other.

Such process is a disgrace and shows utter contempt to the candidate as the company obviously didn't take the time to get someone to do a real interview, instead considering candidates to be automatons to be rejected unless they fit some kind of framework.

I've had several times when it was decided I was completely incapable of any work in IT (despite having been working in IT professionally for 7 years), a friend was rejected after an assessment center because he was supposedly incapable of working in a team (he'd over a decade as a consultant and team leader) or of having contact with customers (before going into IT he was an editor for a public radiostation for over a decade).
The group he was with in that assessment center he was the only IT person, the rest were flight attendants and callcenter workers for an airline yet all were graded according to exactly the same criteria...

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