With method LinkedHashMap::put, would
      myMap.put("aKey", someObject);
still have a reference to the key "aKey" (and therefore, someObject) if
myMap is returned by a function?

I am looking for a text encoder and text decoder for object
serialization and deserialization.  Any one have work on such a tool
before and can share the source code?
I have the encoder working using recursion and reflection, but I don't

Hi i like to know what you think about/experiences of using generics in
java.
Does it really make life easier? What are the advantages of using
generics and where should I avoid using it (if that is true)?

I am new to Java and I am working on web services directly. I have a
quick question to you gurus. I want to run the command
java org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient
but i get a error saying

Hello all, i am trying to load a class file into a JSP page and getting
a few errors...what ive got is a simple form, that reads a username,
password, and submits it to a login.jsp  file.  my login.jsp looks
like:

I'm trying to cache objects that are expensive to load from the database,
but I need the 'visible' object to be a Map so I can use it with JSTL.
I set about extending AbstractMap and the 'get' method was easy, but I got
stuck on the 'entrySet' method.  The cache I'm using does not ...

just wondering how concepts of structural programming
apply to java.   some of them are valid but others seem
out of date.  please comment.
concept of 'package' promotes high

I'm trying to write a library-class which contains a method for which
I don't know in advance the data types the programmer will present to
this method.
No I have implemented this as follows:

Please do yourself the favor of "Learning how to program" in a procedural
language first like C or QuickBasic, Pascal?  Stay out of Windows/GUI
Progamming until you have mastered pointers, variable referencing,  file
I/O, text based interface creation, basic graphics libraries, you ...

I'm running win xp sp2, AFAICT every OS language option is set to
English (GB).  However,  whenever I execute the java console, or the
java update or an applet, the text appears in an asian font (I'm not
fluent enough to know which one it is).  When using other java tools

I have an EJB that passes a vector of data to another java class and
that class writes that vector to a file.  I can get this to run on my
local server using WSAD.  I can delete, create and write to this file.
However, when I put it out on the server (AIX box) I can't get it to do

Hi! I'd like to see what ant thinks a variable value is.
<echo>${varname}</echo> just shows me the literal '${varame}'. I was
hoping there was some way to resolve it.
The reason I want to do this is that delegate build.xml's don't seem to

Why does the Class type use Generics?
Or in other words - how am I supposed to use it?
I store certain Classes in hash tables, and then create dynamic instances
of objects according to the correct type at run-time. What "type of class"

I'm trying to make a method in a jsp-file like this one:
The method has an Enumeration object and a String object as arguments. Don't
bother about the validation, it is taken care of by another method. Just
assume that it turned out OK.

Im a relativly familiar java programmer, but quite new to JSP and i
have a basic (possibily dumb) question.  I looked around on the web,
but didnt find anythign that really answered by question.
i have a java class MyClass.class