Technology Questions

A NSArray’s contents can not be modified once it’s been created whereas a NSMutableArray can be modified as needed, i.e items can be added/removed from it.

An abstract class can have instance methods that implement a default behavior. An Interface can only declare constants and instance methods, but cannot implement default behavior and all methods are implicitly abstract. An interface has all public members and no implementation. An abstract class is a class which may have the usual flavors of class members (private, protected, etc.), but has some abstract methods.

Web browser is a software application used to locate,retrieve and display content on the World Wide Web, including Web pages, images, videos and other files.

Examples : Microsoft Internet Expiorer , Mozilla Firefox , Google Chrome, Opers , Safari etc...

Sparse matrix,

Index generation

The JDBC Driver provides vendor-specific implementations of the abstract classes provided by the JDBC API. This driver is used to connect to the database.

Similar to system testing, the *macro* end of the test scale is testing a complete application in a situation that mimics real world use, such as interacting with a database, using network communication, or interacting with other hardware, application, or system.

=> When a consumer wants to buy a certain product, he go to the website and selects the product he wants to buy. 

=> Once the product is selected, the consumer transaction is moved to the online transaction server where he places an order. 

=> The informations is exchanged over a secure channel through a private gateway to a processing network. 

=> The networked banks accept or reject the transaction.

 All this happens in just a matter of seconds. E-commerce is a very secure due to the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology.

In the mesh topology, each computer is connected to the other with a separate physical link in a network. It is most reliable topology as the network does not get down in case one of the nodes is failed.