To All,
Is there a way when I am creating my own generic class that I can define
 the (for lack of a better term) highest super class allowed as the
generic?

I am writing an signed applet for use in the public domain. As I
understand the statistics, about 60% of all users still run some Win /
IE combo with the old MS 1.1 VM. The rest runs some combination of
browser and a newer VM. Yet, a growing number has no VM at all (Win XP

I have the following problem to use JComboBox.
I have an aplication that have two panels. When I run the aplication this
show a first panel (Presentacion). It has a button and when I click this
button it remove the current panel and show the second panel (Formulario).

I am making a class called utilities which I plan to have a couple of
static methods in it.  I have declared the class as follows.
public class Utilities {
   public static Settings      userData = new Settings();

I am trying to read in a Java source code file, line by line, using
java.util.Scanner but I want to ignore commented sections and just work
with the code.
If anyone could offer any advice about how to skip the commented

Ok, here goes. How do I stop a java program. Have a check of agrg[]. If
two files are not listed print an error msg then end program. Problem is
it keeps dropping down.
public class Pba2  {

I've been looking for a good clear reference for the features of J2EE.
Ideally I'm looking for a list of what J2EE gives you over J2SE. Even
on the Sun site I can't seem to find this basic 101 information that is
clearly written.

I have a simple JFrame that just has a JButton positioned on it. The
frame size is dynamically set so that it encloses the button. Here is
the simple code:
import java.awt.Container;

Here is a simple question: does anyone know if I can run WSDP 1.5 (a
JAX-RPC remote service) with tomcat 4.1? I see they recommend to use
tomcat 5, but I have good reasons to stay with tomcat 4.1.
Thanks,

Hello i need a free package for to generate
'Dicom images multiframe'
tnx

I have written (copied) a simple applet that reads a JPG from the server and
paints in on the Applet.
I have another application that is continusly updating the JPG image on the
server.

If clients with Internet Explorer have both java virtual machine plugin
installed ( Microsoft and  Sun ),
how is it possible to force an applet to run on java microsoft virtual
machine and not Sun one ( of course without manually changing any

I have legacy code in C that I am porting to java. The code makes
extensive use of function pointers (callbacks). An example is as follows:
typedef double (*PFUNC)(PricingParam const *)  ;
typedef struct

knows anybody, how to reload image from disc?
First, I load image using ImageIcon, display it. User clicks on rotation,
I run external jpegtran to turn it, load the image again, and voila -- I
get the OLD image!

i have a problem i am having diffculty fixing. i am using a JTree, which has
a root and three layers of children. the problem is that the spacing between
the nodes is very large, probably twice what it needs to be, but ONLY for
layers two and three (that is, the grandchildren and ...