I am trying to read some russian characters from my .properties file
(encoded in ISO-8859-1) using a PropertyResourceBundle. The russian
characters are entered in  the .properties file in unicode. My problem
is that the method call PropertyResourceBundle.getString(key) returns

I'm trying to write some code which will split up a vector into two
halves and run a method on the objects in the vector using two seperate
threads. I was hoping to see a near linear speedup on an SMP machine,
but I'm finding that the code below takes almost exactly the same

I am attempting to convert the following code written in c to
equivalent java code.  This is the CRC32 algorithm used by a GPS
received I am interfacing with.  Unfortunately, the CRC32 class
provided in the java API does not suit my needs because it does not

I randomly getting this exception with my hdd working ok, and no
postgre log saying anything wrong.
Do you have any idea what might cause the exception?
Cheers.

Is there any generic algorithms for searching xml files out there. Either by
searching a dom tree or by using xslt. Something so common should be out
there but I can't seem to find it.Basically I just want to search a list of
xml elements and get the ones with say first name ...

does anyone out there use Eclipse 3.0.1  as their Java Editor?

created a new Code Formatter profile and set it up how i want.
However, when editing code in eclipse i do not see any of the

What happens to a file if a Java application opens it, writes to it, but
then ends without closing the file?
I've got a file that is having lines appended to it via one of my programs.
However, some of the things that I should be seeing in the file aren't

I am Developing a Menu Based J2me Application using Canvas, where a Menu is
displayed on startup and upon selecting the menu relavent detail is
displayed.
The problem is that when switching between Canvases (Menu -> Details) the

Is there a way to pass parameters (variables?) from a JSP page to a servlet
when it is called? This way I can use a generic servlet to do several
different tasks. The call to the servlet is made by using the JSP forward
tag.

Hello!!
I have a problem, i have wrote a drawing package using java AWT and
swing comonents in which i can draw shapes on to a canvas such as
lines rectangles ovals, i have wrote each shape on to a BufferedImage

I'm writing this program to implement a two phase multi-way merge sort.
It works by splitting the data to be sorted into temporary sorted
lists (output files) equal in size to a memory constraint that is
passed in when the program is run.  What I've got to do now is actually

Don't know if this is the right place to ask an Eclipse question or not.
I've seen a few of them so I will give it a shot. If anyone knows of a
better place to ask Eclipse questions, please let me know.
Anyway, a simple but absolutely infuriating problem (i.e. I have spent

I need to parse XML and get the first record only. I am using DOM now,
but it reads the complete XML, then I get the first record. I know it
probably involves SAX, but can SAX stop parsing to the parse handler at
any point? or does it have to parse the complete doc, if so, then how

I just started to work with j2me because i want to interact with an
RMI service. I found a RMI optional package at the java-webpages but
after downloading i do not really know what to do with it.
It contains a bunch of java files, but i think what i need is a jar

Why actually can a interface method implementation not be static?
public interface IF
{
       public /* static */ void method();