Hei!
I was thinkin about the speed of the Java
graphic commands and i hav noticed that
all the command are really really slow even

I've got this Swing application developed, and working in the field, on
Win2k which I'm told crashes on XP.
I've been sent a backtrace which seems to indicate that it falls over in:
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsTableHeaderUI$XPDefaultRenderer

Does the term method signature have different definitions depending on
context?
JLS 8.4.2 --- This may be compiler's view.
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All the documentation I can find indicates that an application called
jarsigner should have come with the standard jdk distribution, but I don't
see it anywhere.  
Anybody know how or where to get a copy of jarsigner.exe?

I'm trying to find a good (and preferrably free) tool for UML-modelling that
supports roundtrip engineering in Java, and that supports 1.5. Any
suggestions ?
It would be nice if the tool is a plug-in to Eclipse and/or NetBeans.

Is it possible to refactor the while loop into one method?  The only way
  I can think of is to use if ... else when deciding the setSize but
that would be inefficient.
if (....) {

How can I read a tiff with ImageIO?
I tried
BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File(file))
It compiles fine, but return a null when I run the program. I think

1.    The following code is a complete application, which accesses a
**shared** SQL database.  This code seemed ok in test but causes some
unrelated updates of salary to be occasionally lost in production.  Why
could this happen?  What options are there to resolve this problem?

I generate 15 images every second, and I want to make it into a video
stream and send it to someone else through network.
To elaborate: I have a Frame window and I want to show the other person
what is happening on the window. So I capure image of window 15 times

I inherited a job that uses Oracle. There are maybe
90 tables. I have files that I can run through
sql*plus to create the tables so I have the descriptions.
Question is: is there any software that I can use

Im trying to build a simple avi movie file programatically.  (black
background, white text, that sort of thing).

jpegs...  However I haven't been able to find any references online as

I have a double array & 2 double var's -
   double subTotals[10][10];
   double x = 9670000.0;
   double y = 180000.0;

I have a small java Problem. In my project, some .java files are
created and placed in the destination directory specificied by the
user. In those .java files we declare the package name.It works when we
the destination directory specified by the user does not have a space

I've got an XML document that contains euro signs and looks like :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<merchant id="52">
 <product

I have to develop an Open Source gis application.
What's the most used (and simply to use)  o.s. gis library?