I was thinking about getting my Java certification.  The first
certification, Sun Certified Programmer seems easy enough.  The second
one Sun Certified Developer seems like it would be a little more
difficult, but still doable.

This is just a hypothetical question..
Let's say I did a contract project that took 3 - 6 months to develop.,,
and later, the company asked me to do code maintenance on it.
Generally, on average, or in what range of time would it take to complete

I have a (SAS) database and I have to put into a field a decimal value.
The database field is of the Type -> Number
        PreparedStatement st = conn_update.prepareStatement("UPDATE
m_usr.anomaly_param set susp_tolerance = ? where line_id = ?");

sorry correction:
If you have to following case:
2 soon to be compiled jars:
 here.jar:

i'm currently making some tests with jsp's
but one thing i don't really know how to solve is this :
suppose i pass a parameter (string) to a certain page and i want to convert
that string into something else

I am working with a class in which I am creating a 2d array with nine
elements. During the course of the class I set values to each of the nine
elements:
int intSquareOwner[][] = {{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 0,}, {0, 0, 0}};

I'm using Tomcat 5 over WinXP Pro and the admin page is not showing. I
did try in several computers in my classroom and just a few of them it
works okay.
Please HELP!

I am testing a Comparator with the PriorityQueue (JDK1.5), and I want it to
sort ascending. I tested several random numbers, and they work, but when I
added the number 100 or 1000 to the list, it did not sort right. Any help
appreciated.

I have an public inner Java Class witch I want to create from a c++
.dll. How to do that?
When I want to create it on the Java side it looks like that:
// creating the Outer Class

I have a JSP that shows a table, from which the user can select the
elements he is interested in to be shown. He should be able to do this
again and again.
Let's say, the original table (which is stored in the table.jsp file)

I have 20 different algorithms that do different things, but have the
same interface. I need to be able to call these algorithms from Java.
I built a Java (JNI) interface for the algorithms. In my app I want to
do something like

Hi, I have a text file of the foll format
date <end line>
some text <end line>
some more text <end line>

how can we explain this that I just observed?
The task is to count the frequency of words in text. A simple change in
the code can result in HUGE memory usage difference.
The program goes like this:

hello! I find that some large applets in my web pages take either a very
long time or for ever to load when using internet explorer; they all load
using linux konqueror, albeit slowly. Has anyone else experienced this?
Comments gratefully received.

with "System.out.println(java.nio.charset.Charset.defaultCharset().name());"
I can show the active Java-Charset, e.g. in the Java-Console. In my
Java-Console the charset "windows-1252" is showing.
But how can I define a new Java-Charset? In my case I need UTF-8 as the