Does anyone know a way of getting the details of the user applications
that are currently running on his machine? To be very specific, I want
to get the list of all applications that are currently running on my
machine (the list of applications that shows up in the 'Applications'

I'm writing a small test program to illustrate several aspects of
regular expressions.  In the section illustrating "lookaround"s, I
found something I didn't understand.  My testing is with JDK 1.4.2.
My candidate string is "ab".

Pls tell me that
if I create an application on based of J2ME MIDP 2.0, will it allow me
to access Mobile Communicating interface like IR, Bluetooth,USB etc.
Thanks In advance

I recall that with java applets (bytecode) you can use a disassembler
to reverse compile and so output a source code .java file from any
.class file.  Is this still true with J2ME bytecodes?  Can you still
achieve the same effect?

Is it possible to display underline in a JTextfield? It is possible
using styles in styled text area. But how to do it on JTextfield? What
is the related function?
-Sameer

Any opinions about having an interface whose sole reason for existence
is to house some public static final const primitive values to be used
by other classes?
A couple points to consider (though feel free to comment beyond these):

I'm programming in a group project using Struts/String/Hibernate, and
usually I'm in the model/business layer. Typically I prefer to throw
RuntimeException for drastic, non-recoverable errors and some
assertions. Some of our guys are claiming - we are in the integration

Well.. i wanna to concatenate a string... like:
String x;
while(true)
x += "x";

Hi. I have written a full fledged webservice, based on your simple
hello sample.
The thing is that I need to add to the servlet section of the web.xml
the following lines.

My name is Hakim Singhji and I am currently a student at New York
University. I am majoring in Information Systems concentrating on
Application Development. However, I have not completely decided on
which application langauage to concentrate on (yet!). I am fluent in

Recently, I have been doing some job searching, career advancement, you
know the deal.  I am a J2EE Developer, standard Web application
platform, Oracle backend. I have been doing a little Java research,
going over how many jobs are growing in different areas, getting a feel

I have the following selectbox in my jsp page:
<select name="myNumber">
<option value="1">One
<option value="2">Two

I have the following problem. I have an application (with sources)
completely written in C. Now I want to write an Java application with
possibility to exchange data (int, double, String ...) with my CApp. I
have read the JNI tutorial and many posts in many forums.

I'm opening a file from my JSP file. If I do not set the encoding to
ISO-8859-1 the file is read in as ascii.
I checked the encoding with:
InputStreamReader fileReader = new InputStreamReader(new

I had never run into this before but have recently encountered code
that is something like:
// This code runs - I'm generalizing so forgive unintentional
oversights