how can one recognise & in java string when taken as command line
argument,as many special characters like |,>,<, & and * are never
accepted in the string and no exception ever handles them ,so I have
already made an exception in my code to handle these 5 characters ie

Hi group,
by using the Java Jakarta Struts framework, is there a way to exchange
data between different web applications deployed at the same servlet
container directly by using something similar tothe servlet context or

before anyone screams in anger at me and tell
me I should go back to some proper OO design
classes, I want to say that the following
scenario is completely hypothetical and my

habe verschiedene M?glichkeiten ausprobiert eine jpg-Datei von einer A4 -
Gr??e auf 500x700 zu skalieren und anzuzeigen.
Das Anzeigen dauert mir allerdings zu lange.
Die Datei ohne Skalierung darzustellen geht sehr schnell.

How do I obtain the coordinates for the clientarea of a window, ie adjusted
for caption, menubar, framewidth etc etc
TIA

I have a JComboBox and to it I addItem() 4 JPanels
The idea being that I want whatever one is selected shown in a space
below my comboBox
Problem is, ONLY the first one I add (default) ever shows up. I can

When I run my application from inside JCreator everything looks good. But
when I run the same application from a JAR-file, none of the pictures (gif)
shows.
Any clue?

I have a little question. I want to use the new services offered by
the NOAA (http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/) and for this I need
to create and send a SOAP request. I have written a little java file
and it doesn't compile with NetBeans:

I'm new to JSTL, and I'm trying to understand the forEach interator.
Looking through the example provided (jstl-standard-examples.war)
<c:forEach var="customer" items="${customers}">
 <c:out value="${customer}"/><br>

Just a quick question :
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
Does this mean that the taglib is being imported from the sun.com website?
Does this also mean that the computer I'm running this page on needs an

Running tomcat 5.0.28, netbeans 4.0, J2SE 1.4.2_06, Windows XP SP1
Create hello world servlet, with usual imports i.e
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

I wanted to add the following feature to my Mail User Agent.
Whenever a I click on a folder, the client will query the server for
messages in it. If the folder has a lot of messages the client has to
wait for a long time to get the messages. What I want is the client

I have a java application . A  .bat file is used to launch the
application which sets the environment variables and launches java. I
am also using jclass in my application. I get several warning messages
which are from jclass and also some exception messages from the

I am trying to maintain sessions by doing URL rewrite. Things were
working fine till the URL did not contain any parameters. The URL that
I have now is of the form:
http://myurl?id=1&user=null and on doing a sessionID append it becomes

I'm looking for an algorithm of prime checker for big numbers.
It's supposed to use BigInteger class.
Thanks for your help for newbie.