I'm looking for a good idea as to how to do the following:
I have a JAVA client which calls a PHP script on a server via HTTP GET.
Now the PHP script does a rather time-intensive task which can take a
couple of minutes. I'd like to show the progress in my client GUI, i.e.

I have the following entries in a servers.properties file:
0.description=Description for item 0
0.server=server0.name
0.ports=12,34

Hi I am java newbie and need help on my project. I have a few
questions. Can you put strings in a hashtable and test for their being
their with the appropriate hashtable method? I want to test for equal
strings, not the same object. Second question can you use all 64 bits

I made a download JSP page and it works fine mostly.
But *SOMETIMES* when a IE download dialog is open, if a user click
cancel/save download button, the IE window which contains download link
*CLOSED* suddenly.

I'm testing the overall configuration options etc. of Tomcat.
When I add this to my server.xml:
       <Context path="/lddekeyz"
                docBase="/home/lddekeyz/tomcat/"

Does Java have an equivalent of the rather handy PHP function nl2br
which replaces new lines with <br /> for nice use in websites?
I am sure it is nice and easy to just replace all of the \n or \r\n 's
with the <BR /> but with it being such a useful PHP thing I thought

I'm looking for a web browser in a Java class to automatically access
Websites, handle cookies, follow redirects, change forms, etc.
Does anyone know a class like this?
Thx for your help,

I'm trying to extract the header-fields(To, From, CC, BCC, Subject...)
from a e-mail message. I get the raw e-mail(eml) in the form of a
String, but i can't seam to find any usefull classes that can help me
extract all this information...

I would like to package my Java application (executable, not J2EE or
web) in a JAR and not package my resource bundle properties file in a
JAR. My reasoning is as follows: one of the reasons I use resource
bundle as a .properties file is that it makes it easy to make changes

Even though I intend to write the app in Java this is a design related
question. I would have posted this to an OOP group (I just like the sound of
that ... OOP Group), but there doesn't seem to be a design group. Please let
me know if I am wrong.

How do you print a new line char when buffering to a file heres what I
have.
    BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file, true));
    out.printLine(logData);  

Hi, I have a question about Tomcat 4.x. I'm using JSP with some .java
libraries inside a package named "p". The *.java files are under directory
"./WEB-INF/classes/p/". All worked ok until I accidentally deleted WEB-INF
folder, so I created all that directories again to put ...

I'm hoping some in here will have had experience with the Jakarta
commons
file upload utility and inparticular writing an uploaded file to a BLOB
field.

I would like to create a wiggly shape for the strokes I am drawing using
Graphics2D.
Basically instead of drawing general paths for each stroke I would like
to set the shape for each line.

I'm attempting to sign some applets that will step outside the sandbox by
means of opening a network connection. What I want to know is there anyway
of creating a certificate instead of buying one from a "trusted authorithy"
even if its just for testing. and does anyone know if its ...