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Let's dive straight into the absolute bedrock of object-oriented programming in Java. At a senior level, interviewers aren't just going to ask you to define these concepts; they want to know how you design production-grade banking APIs with them, and where developers typically mess up.

The Pillars of OOP in Financial Systems

When you're building systems at a bank like Unibank, security, predictability, and clean abstractions are everything. Let's look at how we enforce these using core OOP principles.

First, there is encapsulation, which is your first line of defense in defensive programming. It isn't just about making fields private and auto-generating getters and setters. In financial systems, encapsulation is about protecting the integrity of your domain models. For example, if you have a BankAccount object, you should never expose a naked setter for the balance field. Instead, you expose highly controlled business methods like deposit() or withdraw() that internally validate state transitions and prevent unauthorized modifications.

Next, let's talk about abstraction and polymorphism. In a payment gateway, you might support multiple payment methods: Credit Cards, Apple Pay, and direct bank transfers. Instead of writing massive, fragile block of if-else statements to handle each type, you define a clean PaymentProcessor interface. This is abstraction: hiding the complex underlying execution details and showing a simple, unified interface to the client code. At runtime, the JVM uses polymorphism to execute the specific implementation of the payment method dynamically.

To show you how this looks in a mock design scenario, let's visualize how we structure a clean, polymorphic payment framework that keeps our core banking logic decoupled from individual payment vendor SDKs.

Designing with these principles in mind makes your code modular, easily testable, and highly secure. Now, senior interviewers love to test your depth on how Java actually implements polymorphism under the hood. Specifically, they'll ask you to contrast method overloading with method overriding, and explain how the JVM resolves each one.

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