Top 10 EJB Interview Question and Answer asked in Java J2EE Interviews

10 EJB Interview Questions and Answer from my collection of interview questions. I have been sharing interview questions on various topics like Singleton interview questions, serialization interview questions, and most recently Spring interview questions. No doubt these questions are very important for performing better in J2EE and EJB interviews but also they open a new path for learning as you may find some concepts new even while revising your knowledge in EJB. EJB interviews have always been tough because its difficult to find people who have hands-on experience on Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and most of the guys either have worked only on sample projects and are not aware of critical functionalities like distributed transaction management, container-managed persistence, and various other services which EJB provides.

What is load-on-startup servlet element in web.xml with Example?

load-on-startup is an element that appears inside <servlet> tag in web.xml.4 years back load-on-startup was a very popular servlet interview question because not many Java J2EE developer was familiar with this element and how load-on-startup works inside a servlet container like tomcat or WebSphere. In this J2EE Tutorial, we will see what is a load on startup, how to use the load-on-startup element, and what are different values we can configure for load-On-Startup inside web.xml.

Difference between SendRedirect() and Forward() in JSP Servlet? Example

The difference between SendRedirect and forward is one of the classical interview questions asked during a java web developer interview. This is not just applicable for servlet but also for JSP in which we can use forward action or call sendRedirect() method from scriptlet. Before examining the difference between forward and SendRedirect let’s see what send Redirect method and the forward method does.

SendRedirect ():  

This method is declared in HttpServletResponse Interface.

Signature: void sendRedirect(String url)