Does anyone know why the java designers didn't make every object
shallow-cloneable by default?
I understand the implications of cloning something overly hefty, and to be
cautious about such things, but it still seems a little overboard to me to

hei,
can somebody give me an acdemic definition & an overview &/or use of
notifier?
thanks!

I am trying to create 2 separate environments (dev and test) on one
powerful
Unix server which has 2 network cards, 2 IP addresses, 2 server
names...

What's the preferred way to get an iterator that iterates over all elements
of an unsorted list, in sorted order?  My approach was to create a copy of
the list, sort it and then return the sorted list's iterator.
This seems crude ... is it?

The question is a bit lengthy (for completeness) but actually quite simple.
I have a very simple xml document Im experimenting with:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<metadata xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"

i current have a subclass of JDialog that has only these two lines in
the constructor:
getRootPane().getInputMap(JComponent.WHEN_IN_FOCUSED_WINDOW).put(
                KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE, 0),

I have a serious bad performance problem when under the load.
When I make a load test of 20 users, I see a bottleneck on the writing
of the response.
The lenght of the message up to 50K , but writting to outputstream

i'm using user.home to get the home directory of the user and store a
config file there however in college the user home dir returns
c:\username\home however users don't have write permissons to that dir
so I need to be able to save it in H:\user\home but I need to be able to

I have got an application like dialog window. There are some buttons,
labels, edit boxes. This application connect with some device by RS232.
This application contain about 30 classes. Somebody tell me how to test
this kind of application?

I want to beable to display a directory listing in a JSP page, like filename
and if possible size and creation date.
I found this example :
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=45&threadID=271208

I try to read a file from an URL. My code is easy: I open the
connection, send the params requested and get the data stream (from a
XML file).
Everything is ok when I run it into my local Tomcat (5.0.24) (with SDK

This is a general style question. If you implement an Observer as part of
the model in a MVC pattern, do you use a large number of methods or one
simple method that receives various messages.
For example:

anyone have any recommendations for java/j2ee magazines?  any of them that
really suck & should be avoided?
thx

If a method is synchronized like this:
public synchronized void broadcast (String message) {
I have like 10 threads calling the broadcast method.
What happens to all threads calling this method?

I'm using WAS 5.1 and a bean TimedObject that use TimerService and other
classes of EJB 2.1.
I found that WAS has not these classes in its libs, so I can't deploy or/and
run my application.