Jersey City 2007 UBS IV

Q: have you created custom annotations?
Q: Since you have designed many caching systems, tell me what features are important to a cache?
Q: what jdk1.5 features do you like most?
A: threading
Q: why was enum good for your project?
Q: do you know "reference objects"? Have you used them?
Q: have you subclassed a enum to add methods?
Q: are your caches expandable?
Q: how did you implement size control on your caches?
A: see separate post
Q: now i have told you what a soft reference is, can you think of a good usage in software engineering
Q: now i have told you what a weak reference is, can you think of a good usage in software engineering

Now I guess this is possibly an eq trading system.