Can someone please show me how to draw a dashed line between two points?
Is there a method in the AWT library that allows this? Thanks!
Rick

Could anyone tell me how to making just one specific row
non-selectable in a JTable? Remind that non-selectable is different to
non-editable.
Thanks!

any reason why java has "byte" data type?? any practical example why I need
byte data type?? Thanks a lot.

When I create a socket such as Socket sock = new Socket(address, port)
and I pass some garbage value to address field like (123334) or
something like that, the client just hangs up and does not throw any
exceptions or anything. The funny thing is, when the address field is

I'm a newbie in java so i may ask a very stupid question..
I have source files of a package that i would like to compile and
trace the execution.
The problem is that i need classes from other packages to success

void setIsCalcRows(boolean iscalcRows) {this.isCalcRows = isCalcRows;}
ouch!
took me about 2 mins to solve but could have been soooooo much longer!
could be a good reason to do

Howdy All!
I am trying to issue a javadoc command with the following linkoffline
option:
-linkoffline http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api

I have build some servlets to practice distributed programming.
The servlets generate HTML code. In the beginning it was just a few
lines, now its getting more and more. Although I made a number of static
Strings and functions for html tags, lot of handwork remains.

Anyone have a idea how can we make the java class file run in the background
with the same in system tray (Windows) any clue or hint shall be
appreciated.

Can anyone explain why the JavaDoc on Properties says:
"A property list can contain another property list as its "defaults";
this second property list is searched if the property key is not found
in the original property list."

I have subclassed a JTextArea, and am handling the keyboard events.
I would like to get the last line of text each time the user
presses carriage return. I am going to use the widget as a
serial communication terminal: send each line of text over the serial

i have an array of objects, and i can get each object out, but what i want,
is to get the value of a variable from that object that ive pulled out of
the array.
how?

Suppose I have a Java Class object denoting some Java class. I would
like to dynamically create an *array* of references to the class that
the Class object denotes. The size of the array should also be given in
the creation. What is the easiest way of doing this?

I'm now studying the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 platform exam
and I got one Java 2 certification all-in-one exam guide by Wiliam
Stanek on hands and I have installed JDK 1.4 in my notebook. But I
still need more practice question to prepare for my exam (310-035),

I have a robot that is very busy, doing screen tasks several times a second.
The robot is controlling a non-java program.  My problem is that I can't
make it stop.  I'd like to hit a key stroke and make the robot stop what its
doing, but I can't seem to get this to work.  I can't ...