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by jerf 661 days ago
The "secret decoder ring" for this sort of question is that it's really "say something intelligent about this code that indicates you have real and good experience" even more so than "find the bug". So your answer would generally be off to a good start as well.

Given the Java code in question, while I understand the idea that "well, the session provider may just be hard coded" and such, I would definitely want to hear something about deficient exception handling. It's obviously an important part of the code and while I may not be able to spew out the exact correct exception handling without knowing more about the context and what exceptions may occur, it is obviously very wrong as written.