I'm giving my first steps with struts.
Here's the situation: I have created a jsp (say result.jsp) that displays a
table with a set of data calculated in the action, and which has been stored
in a result bean. Normal.

I am new to java and wondering how i do the following. I have a simple
program which accepts from the command line 2 numbers followed by an
operation (add, subtract, etc)
If the calculation has an associated method, how do i call the method if

hi there...
Can anyone give some guidelines in converting tiff to pdf in searchable
format.
If there is any third party open source jar.It will be very

I have a variety of applications that need to be able to write diagnostics
to the same flat file. While there won't be that many situations where any
of these applications are running concurrently, it could happen. What is the
best way to write my applications to handle the case ...

I've had success "web scrapping" ASPs using the URLConnection object,
but get no luck with servlets. When I invoke the servlet from a
browser there's no problem, but when I invoke it from code nothing
happens. As I said, I have no problems opening connections to ASPs and

Having been on this group quite a bit over the last 5+ years and almost
finishing my second degree, with some Java certs too...
I have now managed the career change and secured my first IT position.
Problem is it is not in Java, and the language is some pretty ropey inhouse

What's the best method of text encryption if I wanted to store passwords in
an XML file? Are there any in-built functions of the API which would allow
me to store a key in code and encrypt and decrypt text using this key?
P.S. The project isnt high security so I'm not overly ...

Hi comp.java
Can someone please explain the different colors I see in my Eclipse console
when I use java.util.logging. Also, how does one configure this? I seem to
recall this happening in JDeveloper as well so I assume this is a logging

How do I fulfill a contract across two different Java versions? That is, how
do I make the code that implements my contract portable.
Specifically, I have a class that implements the interface
java.sql.Connection. The code is written for JDK 1.3. In JDK 1.4 they added

I have a Java applet which uses some JNI stuff to interract with a scanner.
The basic way things are is:
java -> call sane stuff
sane.jar -> loadLibrary(sanej)

I am using Struts 1.2.4 and I have an Action that flushes a generated
excel file (Using Apache POI) to the client. The client is able to
download the file but an exception is thrown because the output stream
has been flushed. I am just wondering if there is a way to work around

I've been given the task up updating the appearence (ie color
when selected or not) of some JToggleButtons on a fairly large
application and it seems like a really bad idea to do this via
btn.setBackground or btn.setForeground etc...  I know it should be done

I've never used XML and Java together, so apologies for the basic question.
In fact I've hardly ever used XML before to be honest.
How do I extract data from an XML file and use that data to generate an
object? Obviously I'll generate the XML elsewhere, and define the classes

I am sorry but I have to post a silly question. I have just started to
learn Java and I am already stuck!
I have installed ECLIPSE, chosed a default folder ect..
Where can I find the .exe file to launch it again?

Im connecting an applet to my own simeple server useing
connection = new Socket( getCodeBase().getHost(), 2001, true );
But no matter where I open the applet, it allways say's the same ip is
connecting, the ip the simple server is running on. any idea's?