Hi everyone, Im having trouble with a splashscreen that I'm trying to
create, as I'm new to Java I have pulled a piece of example code and I
have been trying to learn from it by playing around with it. It cant
get it to work though.

Is there a visual JAR tool available on the net that provides
facilities like adding, removing, updaing files from a jar and to
create new JAR files on the fly. A free tool would be better but paid
ones with low cost are also appreciated.

I've got theoretical problems with the idea of MultiThreaded Servers.
I want my server to run as separate threads for the clients.
I'm not enough experienced with network programming and Java itself.
Well I have a while loop like this (I removed all try/catch

I have a jsp which displays Japanese characters . I use UTF-8 in the
jsp
using <%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> . Data is coming as unicode/
Everythinmg works well Windows / JBoss /

It seems as though java does not have the ability to read or handle
unsigned 64-bit integers. Correct me if I am wrong. I am trying to
develop an algorithm to bypass this limitation.
Suppose I have the usigned 64-bit int "18438013886959845375". This

I am writting a Servlet that will send emails. I have the following code in
my servlet.  But the Servlet is throwing the Exception. The Exception says
that it Could not connect to SMTP host: pop.bigalsoftware.com .  But I
currently have a perl CGI  program  that uses pop ...

I'm using tomcat 5 with the jsp 2.0 specification and having an extreme
problem using redirects. An example would be like this:
<form action="itself" method="post">
//print some html

Here's the scenario:
We have a JSP page that takes user's input to produce a document.
The user would need to upload an attachment for the document.
The upload is performed by a servlet, which causes us to leave the current

I probably yet don't understand some fundamental things about NIO. The
following code is painfully slow (8sec. for a 6MiB file):
       final FileChannel in = new FileInputStream( f ).getChannel();
       final ByteBuffer token = ByteBuffer.allocate( 4 );

Why does myMethod change the value of myDate but not myString?
Am I missing some scoping principle here?
import java.util.Date;
public class test1 {

I have been doing just java using eclipse. Now I want to do jsp.
I don't see any 'create jsp file' or equivalent.
I would especially like jsp code completion. Any
suggestions?

Is anybody using JBoss in production?  Assuming you have a pretty good
machine and probably sitting by itself, I find it to be pretty effect
over pure Tomcat.

We host software on our web site that has the following java
requirements:
Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP
   * Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2 or later

I am writing a program to store stuff to xml using the storeToXML method
but I can;t get it to compile here it is; any ideas?
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

Is it fair to say that besides Vector and primitive based arrays (int[]
etc..), the ArrayList is the only datastructure that is part of the Java API
that is index based?
Cheers