I have a gui which has 3 combo boxes followed by a TextField all in a
column.  When I open up a combo box, part of the drop down menu is hidden by
the TextField (TextField stays on top), which is below the combo boxes.  Are
there any properties for the TextField that I can set?

Do arrays declared and allocated within a method get allocated on the stack?
If not, will a new array be allocated every time the method is called? (Is
there a good source for information on how the compiler allocates arrays?)
Denny

Im trying to get a text file from a server and load it into a 2
dimensional array. So i came up with the follwoing method. The file is
a table using "|" to indicate the end of a cell and "¬" to indicate
the end of a row. I use if statements to find these  but the if

What's the right way to wait for an image to be fully loaded?
I have a non-GUI application (it's a servlet that is trying to load an
image file into memory and crop or scale it). I'm using
TookKit.createImage(byte[]) to make the image. The bytes are the

Now that you can get a 65-bit JVM with J2SDK 1.4.2 for Solaris SPARC (
or for Intel Itanium ), what advantages does a 64-bit JVM have ?
The only thing that I can see is accessing more memory.
Given that, my eight SPARC boxes running Solaris 8 does not have more

Hi Group,
i want to make a write and read communication with a HttpURL
Connection.
I use the method POST. But when i want to get the Outputstream of the

I think I heard somewhere that Java is being used to write games that
can be played on mobile phones. What APIs are needed for this?  Do all
phones now have a JRE installed?
Thnaks for any info,

I am getting some errors/warnings that I don't understand.  This code is in
a Java app that uses Swing J Components with an ActionListener.  The
code/errors/warnings follow.  Thanks for any help, Mike
import javax.swing.*;

I am an unemployed web developer with php, perl, and asp programming
experience and in order to be able to widen my job search I am
considering getting some formal training in Java.  I am looking for
training recommendations in order to be able to do Java web development.

Many newbies seem to think that variables, whose type is an interface,
not a class, can't hold references to objects with a concrete
implementation. This is of course not true, but this is not what I am
writing about. If it *were* true, then what point do the newbies think

I have to write an web-app, where a user can enter some information in a
form on a JSP. The information is saved in a XML-file. Every user got his
own file. Every user has to login and logout if he wants to view or edit his
data

I have a little problem with my JSPs. A new session is constructed
every time the page is accessed, sure it is not working that way, as I
can't store any data that way.
I developed the code at home on Windows/Tomcat4.0.6 and it worked as

does someone know how to define
a c'tor within an IF and an AC?
best regards

I'd like the javadoc descriptions to automatically pop-up with the
code-completion entries (now, it can't find it).
I've tried adding the SDK docs to the JavaDoc Manager using both HTTP
(the Sun API website at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/ ) and

A textarea input in a form of
ID_1    5
ID_2    7
ID_3    9