I've written a Java method that uses a list to return 5 three-dimensional
arrays containing 'Big Decimal' entries.  However I also want to return a
single boolean type variable, but cant seem to get the program to do this.
My method basically goes :-

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  First of all, sorry if that's a stupid question but I'm a newbie
with Java.
  I'm writing a parser that needs the functionality of the
"StringTokenizer" method. That is, I want a method that not only

I have the following error when my JNI class tries to load the shared
library:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /XXXXX.so:
ld.so.1: /software/javajdk-1.5/bin/sparcv9/java: fatal: /XXXXX.so: wrong ELF

Can anybody name the best dependency checkers for rebuilding Java files?
Some time ago, it was said, Ant had only decent dependency checking. A
"plugin" adapter class called Javamake
http://www.experimentalstuff.com/Technologies/JavaMake/index.html

I want to transform the unit square (0,0),(0,1),(1,1),(1,0) to some
parallelogram in 2-d space using  java.awt.geom.AffineTransform . What
translate-, scale-, shear- and/or rotate-operations do I need to combine
and in what order?

All,
Is there a program/utility/class lib (pref gpl) that allows a user to
monitor the threads (like the one in Eclipse, but stand alone)?
The reason I ask is because I have an applet that has athread issue and

I have installed NetBeans 4.1 (bubdled togeather with Sun's application
server) on my home desktop (3.3 Ghz, 1Mb ram)
Since I work on some projects both from home and from my office, I have
them stored on remote drives Samba drives on a linux box, and try to

I'm testing code for a friend and am running into several issues.  Any
help would be greatly appreciated (I have gMail invites to offer if
that would help).
OK, here's the deal:

If I use composition should there be a getComponent() method to get the
component?
e.g
jPanel.add(someClass.getComponent());

I have just installed Jakarta Apache Tomcat 5.5 (jakarta.apache.org/tomcat),
and I am having troubles with the jsp-files. Apparently, the jsp-compiler
does not like when I write things like:
   Vector<String> myStringVector;

I am new to XSLT, modifying somebody else's code:
I have the following data (leaves in parallel branches):
mystruct/myarray1[i]/myvar/var2 and
mystruct/myarray2[i]/myvar/var3

I have written a program in Java to encrypt text using IDEA algorithm
(http://www.finecrypt.net/idea.html)
I need a utility to test my program. Is there any IDEA encryption tool
that will let me encrypt some text so that I can compare its output

How could I have a SocketServer accept connections from a handful of known
IP addresses, when the connections come and go in random order? Right now I
have one instance of ServerSocket accepting connections from all client IP
addresses:

I try to load an image into a BufferdImage instance in the constructor
of my class. It does not work. However, if I load the image in the
paint() method, all goes well. How can I fix this?
The code below should compile readily and illustrate the problem. The file