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Java, comparing a Linked List to an Array

Working on a Java program that will read in two different passages, convert both strings to arrays of strings for each word, and then String One to a linked list, which will promptly be sorted into alphabetical order. After the list has been sorted, I get confused. I have a for loop written to get the length …

What state is a sleeping thread in?

I’m looking for verification/arguments on the following: A thread is in exactly one of the 5 (+1 — 2 for WAITING) states at any point of time. Suppose a thread T calls Thread.sleep(3000); and thus puts itself into sleep for 3 secs. Which state is it in during those 3 secs? It’s clearly start…

Convert Java object to XML string

Yes, yes I know that lots of questions were asked about this topic. But I still cannot find the solution to my problem. I have a property annotated Java object. For example Customer, like in this example. And I want a String representation of it. Google reccomends using JAXB for such purposes. But in all exam…

Multiple assignment at once in java

In python you can do this: Is there an equivalent in java? Answer tl;dr: No, there isn’t such a thing in Java. You can assign initial values to variables like this: But if your want (1, 2, 3) to be the result of a method call, this is not possible in Java. Java does not allow returning multiple values. …