Java terms starting with F

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factory pattern A pattern of class definition that is used as a generator of instances of other classes.
fatal error A fatal error occurs in the SAX parser when a document is not well formed or otherwise cannot be processed. See also error, warning.
FDMA (Frequency-division multiple-access) Frequency-division multiple-access (FDMA) is a mechanism for sharing a radio frequency band among multiple users by dividing it into a number of smaller…
fetch-execute cycle The simple set of steps that are endlessly repeated by a computer's Central Processing Unit for each program instruction: `Fetch the next instruction…
field Field A region of space at each point of which a given physical or mathematical quantity has some definite value.
FIFO (first in, first out) The (FIFO) semantics of a queue data structure. Items are removed in the order in which they arrived in the queue, so older items are always removed…
File System The engine that an operating system or program uses to organize and kept track of files.
File Transfer Protocol The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) defines a standard set of rules that make it possible to transfer a file from one file system to another.
filter A criterion you specify to limit the results when you list or describe your Amazon EC2 resources.
filter chain A concatenation of XSLT transformations in which the output of one transformation becomes the input of the next.
filter stream An input-output class that filters or manipulates its stream of input- or output-data in some way. Two examples are DataInputStream and DataOutputStream.
final A Java keyword. You define an entity once and cannot change it or derive from it later.
final class A class with the final reserved word in its header. A final class may not be extended by another class.
final method A method with the final reserved word in its header. A final method may not be overridden by a method defined in a sub class.
final variable A variable with the final reserved word in its declaration. A final may not assigned to once it has been initialized.
finalization Immediately before an object is garbage collected, its finalize method is called.
finally A Java keyword that executes a block of statements regardless of whether a Java Exception, or run time error, occurred in a block defined previously by…
finally clause Part of a try statement that is always executed, either following the handling a caught exception, or normal termination of the protected statements.
finder method A method defined in the home interface and invoked by a client to locate an entity bean.
Float 1) The amount of uncollected funds represented by checks in the possession of one bank but drawn on other banks.
floating point number See real number.
FOR Field of Regard.
for loop One of Java's three control structures used for looping. The other two are the while loop and do loop.
form-based authentication An authentication mechanism in which a Web container provides an application-specific form for logging in.
formal argument The definition of a method's argument which are part of a method header. Each formal argument has an associated type.
formal parameter See formal argument.
formal parameter list The parameters specified in the definition of a particular method. See also actual parameter list.
Foundation Profile The Foundation Profile is a Java ME profile specification that builds on CDC. It adds additional classes and interfaces to the CDC APIs but does not go so…
FTP File Transfer Protocol (ADP/Internet term).
fully evaluating operator An operator that evaluates all of its arguments to produce a result. Standard arithmetic operators, such as +, are fully evaluating.
fully qualified class name The name of a class, including any package name and enclosing class name. Given the following class outline package oddments; class Outer { public class…
functional programming A style of programming associated with languages such as Haskell. Functional programming languages are more closely tied to a mathematical concept of…