Java/J2EE interview questions: – Distinguish between State and Strategy pattern .

This is one of the most asked JAVA/J2EE interview questions.

So one can differentiate this design pattern and answer this as follows: -

Strategy	State
Family of algorithms is interchangeable which means that every algorithm does the same thing but in different way.	States are not interchangeable.
Encapsulate each algorithm into a class.	We encapsulate each state into a class in state pattern.
Descendants should prepared for most possible events.	Can only process a few events according to the state machine model.
Concrete strategies usually don’t know the others.	Usually concrete states know other concrete states.
More dynamic modeling.	More static modeling.

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