I am writing a Java program (using the jdk 1.5.0) for a project.  It
has to read in words from an input file.  It is a language translator
so that each line consists of an english word, german, french, spanish
etc.  Some of these words contain accents and other characters which

it took me hours to figure out, i tested on ecplise a small java
application, that builds an XML dom, it returned the string using the
toStrimg method, however when i turned it into a Web Service under
tomcat 4.24 it returned null!! only then i noticed i was using

I have written a GUI that will do some work that takes a long time to
finish when a button is pressed. I moved this work to a separate
thread and tried to start it with Display.asyncExec(), but it made the
GUI to hang until the work was finished. I don't understand why.

i am currently studying exceptions within jsp and having a problem
compiling a class....  i have hit the errata discussion boards but
nothing was posted about this, so hopefully i can get the answer
here....

My past experience in Java printing is quite thin.
If I were to design and implement a general purpose desktop printing
utility application, which is better to be taken on between
java.awt.print package and javax.print package?

Someone knows how to send a custom object through a socket between two machines?
Thank to everyone who'll answer to me.
Linus

I'm looking for a C/C++/Java library to create a balanced binary tree
data structure given a set of leaf nodes as input. A leaf node should
never become an interior node.
So if I wish to create a tree that will have a,b,c & d as leaf nodes -

Hello, I am writing a web application with Java.  There is a function that
user can upload a picture to server, and the server will resize it.  I am
using the Java API to do this function.  However, the result is not very
satisfactory.  The resized image quanlity is very bad.

Is there any way to use a byte[] array as a HashMap key? Like
Map m = new HashMap();
m.put(new byte[]{'a','b','c','d'}, new Foo());
and look up:

Does anyone know of a JSP currency convertion script? Possibly that is also
grabs from a
website the up-to-date currencies.
Thanks for any help!

I have a problem with playing sound-files (wav-files) from my
application. The application should play a short (about 1-2 sec
long) sound-file (the existence of the files ich checked) from a
list each time the user pushes a button (the index of the list is

I'm using a UDB database, where the timestamp of a Date field returns
me dates with milliseconds up to 6 decimals:
2005-02-25 11:50:11.579411
I'm looking for two possible ways to deal with time stamp.

Hi all. What is the best way to create a random variable in a class using
the java.util.random class??
Is it better as a local variable or global and also I heard somewhere that
you should declare it as static to make it more random.

  In cmomerical software house, i haven't seem several programmers
edit the same source file, right? Actually bussiness company want to
prevent multi-programmers edit the same source file, but CVS doesn't
provide this function, it focus on "multiple edit", so that why

I am trying to figure out what would make a command work in one place
but not in another. In my code I have a scrollPane initialized to hold
some text.
myTextPane = new JTextPane();