I used NetBeans + JDK 1.5.2 to write a simple program using the SocketServer
class, on my Windows 2000 pc. The program dies not die when I kill it. I
kill it by right-clicking on the process in the execution window and
selecting "terminate." It appears to die within NetBeans but ...

I am looking over the initial design for my application and I see many
models. I am trying to figure out how to keep all my application
models up to date.
I have one main application model that I did to store all the

If I have one Applet that is cpu intensive,
will running a second applet in another frame
improve this second applet's performance?
Worded another way: Will the second applet

I am proposing to send you $5.00 in Paypal for a CSS Template that
should be as such:
    1.  Page Info
         o CSS

I need the code for "loading" a picture over www (ex.
http://www.xyz.com/pic.jpg). I need only to load it, I do not need to
save it on my disk or something like that... Sounds useless and it
is... But I want to learn it and I need it :-)

I am seeking for a framework to present my network-like structures in
the way as theBrain does. I seems to hear there is a API set for
programming theBrain but I can hardly find it and doubt about its
license maybe frustrate my attempt of open source my effort. So is

Lets say I have something like this:
// yes this compiles I cut and pasted this from a example I wrote
// specificallu for this post
public enum foo {

Having a hard time understanding this behavior
File(".")
File("/")
Given the File object above, output of ":::" + x.getName() + ":::" is

Hi Guys/Gals
I got a quick question on regex. My input string consists of two
characters: [a-z][a-z].. However, I only want to match if the two
characters are different.

When connecting to a database from a JSP-file, I write for instance:
sql = "insert into person values(" + newNr + ", '" + forName + "', '" +
lastName + "')";
Statement stmt = null;

import java.util.HashMap;
public class GenericMapTest
{
   private HashMap<String, ? > map  = null;

How do I express "A Comparable that can be compared to itself" in generics?
I have a method that takes as parameter an array of Comparables.
Whilst trying to "modernize" this code, I can no longer write simply:
public void myMethod(Comparable[] primaryKeyValues)

I have a customer that is reporting severe performance problems with Jurtle,
my beginners Java IDE.  He is in a high school setting where they netboot all
their Macs.  The students home directories are kept on the server.
Jurtle displays a listing of the current directory, showing ...

Does anyone know whether there's anwyay to use floating point data to
make a greyscale BufferedImage?
I'd like this because I want an image I can edit and get the results
directly in floating point format.  There's a unsigned 16bit format

I have a string, for example:
String str = "aaab";
I would like to use the matches() method of the String class to test the
string's first 3 characters are identical.