Rekha questions

• Why doesn't line 4 generate an unchecked exception?
• Why does a single object written to two different Streams represent two distinct objects when read back?
• List l = new ArrayList<Number>(); The static type of l is List<Number>? What does that mean?
• Why is the catch parameter implicitly final?
• Behaviour of JVM during out of memory error? List s = new ArrayList<String>();
• What does it mean to say "Java Modified UTF-8 Encoding"?
• Size of java primitives on 32/64 bit jvm?
• How are constructors called during serialization and deserialization?

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