J2ee Interview Questions

Differentiate between .ear, .jar and .war files.


These files are simply zipped file using java jar tool. These files are created for different purposes.

Here is the description of these files:

.jar files: These files are with the .jar extenstion. The .jar files contains the libraries, resources and accessories files like property files.

.war files: These files are with the .war extension. The war file contains the web application that can be deployed on the any servlet/jsp container. The .war file contains jsp, html, javascript and other files for necessary for the development of web applications.

.ear files: The .ear file contains the EJB modules of the application.


What is the difference between Session Bean and Entity Bean?

Session Bean: Session is one of the EJBs and it represents a single client inside the Application Server. Stateless session is easy to develop and its efficient. As compare to entity beans session beans require few server resources.


A session bean is similar to an interactive session and is not shared; it can have only one client, in the same way that an interactive session can have only one user. A session bean is not persistent and it is destroyed once the session terminates.
Entity Bean: An entity bean represents persistent global data from the database. Entity beans data are stored into database.


Why J2EE is suitable for the development distributed multi-tiered enterprise applications?

The J2EE platform consists of multi-tiered distributed application model. J2EE applications allows the developers to design and implement the business logic into components according to business requirement. J2EE architecture allows the development of multi-tired applications and the developed applications can be installed on different machines depending on the tier in the multi-tiered J2EE environment .

J2EE application parts are:

a) Client-tier components run on the client machine.

b) Web-tier components run on the J2EE server.

c) Business-tier components run on the J2EE server and the

d) Enterprise information system (EIS)-tier software runs on the EIS servers