I'm learning how to build GUIs in Java and am transitioning from Qt for
a project. I was wondering if something equivalent to the QToolBox
widget exists in Java.
Here's what the QToolBox does :

I wish to import the contents of a package:
import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.*;
but get the following compiler error:

If I refactor the following class into one below it, should i make the
below nested class static?
public class A {
    private int hgap = 0;

I'm working on an architecture for a fairly large scale system
in Java.  User interactions will be through JSP and servlets,
but there is also a big batch processing component with multiple
jobs that can run for minutes to hours, and some of them running

Hi all! I have a question about Java and Windows systems...It's possible to
obtain the exact path of windows installation folder using Java functions? I
need this to be valid on different versions, from Win98 to WinXP
Thanks at all! Massimo

I was wondering if any one had an example of how to take an existing
Document (web services org.wc3.DOM) object that is populated with a XML
doc and get just a section of it (i.e. between some tags) and place it
into another document object?  Been trying to do it unsuccessfully.

I am looking for an IDE (free or otherwise) similar to HTML editor which has
'preview' (WYSWYG) and 'edit' modes but also work when tags (Struts and
JSTL) are used within the JSP pages. Does anyone have a recommendation?
Thank you

I'm trying to deploy the examples you can get from BusinessObjects.com
for learning how to display reports over the web.  I'm using Netbeans
4.1 along with the built in Tomcat to do this.  It's been years since
I worked with JSP and Tomcat, and it seems to me that things have

I'm using the JAXB -libraries to creat XML -documents. My development
environment is Java 1.4.2_08,  Java Web Services Development Kit 1.5 and
Eclipse 3.0. I can create an XML document without any problems if I run my
code in Eclipse environment. But when I pack my application to ...

how would you measure the execution time of a java method?

I have an application which I want to start through Java Web Start. Now
I also have some other plugin jars which are eventually loaded and used
by the main application. When I run the application stand-alone, it
works fine and also loads all the plugin jars flawlessly.

I'm getting more and more confused looking at old threads (and some are
very old) so I'll take the liberty of a new post for a very basic
question.
Why am I having a problem accessing my java class/bean from a jsp page

I'm having trouble finding a regular expression to do what I want.
I get a string that I want to split by spaces, and the tokens may or
may not be encapsulated by quotes.
I would like to take:

if i start a JVM on windows from one shell (or process), is there a way to
send the equivalent of a ctrl-c to the JVM from another shell or process?
on unix a regular kill gracefully terminates the JVM (shutdown hooks
invoked).  on windows, unless i have access to the shell that ...

Dear friends,
I have a problem with a JFrame (NewJFrame) and a JPanel (JP) subclass.
NewJFrame acts as a container for JP. Now, let's suppose that "a" is a
JP instance variable, with public modifier, to put it simple.