There are plenty of discussion on drag and drop on the news net, but
not many that give an example of how to implement re-ordering of JTable
rows using drag & drop.  Could someone point me to a quick overview of
the moving parts that must be taken into account when trying to

i dont know anything about ANT and have been trying to work on a
solution by looking at our current build scripts and reading up on ANT
but haven't been able to find a solution yet.
basically I'm responsible for the CVS and BASH scripts for checking out

I'm looking for an XML parser that wouldn't stop if it finds a minor error
in an XML file. I need to parse an HTML file and there are a lot of HTML
pages that, for instance, don't enclose attribute values in quotes.
Or, for instance, most of HTML pages don't have a root tag/element ...

I need an algorithm that will, provided a set of decimal numbers,
identify any combination thereof that add up to N.  The size of the set
(array, list, etc.) is unknown.
Seems I recall seeing code for a combination generator in one of my

Hi.  Any opinions for or against defining Comparators as anonymous
inner classes?  I'm wondering if this may cause unit test difficulty or
any other problems?  Would named inner classes be more appropriate
(assuming the comparator would never be applied to other classes)?

I was trying to write a utility method that work almost the same as the
split method on String, that would work with java versions 1.3 or less,
using Jakarta's ORO library. I though I implemented it according to the
javadoc for the split method on String. But the expression

I have a problem with serialization and applets : I have the following part
of code :
ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new
URL(Utilities.getCodeBase(), demoFile + ".sav").openStream());

So, I reviewed spring for a couple of hours with a web application that
was formerly written with JDBC/JSP/Servlets.  From first glance, it
seems as cumbersome as all of the other J2EE components.  I am probably
wrong because I haven't worked with it, but from first glance, I kept

i'm using eclipse 3.0.2 and tomcat 4.1.30 (JRE 1.4.2_06) and when I call my jsp page I get the following error message:
the classpath has been truncated after 990 characters, I think this is the cause of the problem, but I don't know how to fix it.
it's the first time that I get ...

I'm trying to use the ant copy task to copy a directory plus all its
contents and subdirectories to a new directory e.g.
Source directory is d:\temp\dir1
Target directory is c:\temp

Am I misusing HashMap or just need to fix the .hashCode() override for the
key object?
The class I use as a key for a HashMap is unique based on a combination of 4
ints.  Normally,  about 5000 instances are created and persist over time.

I have caracters represented with escape sequence in a file:
\u00B3
\u2074
\u2075

 <j2se version="1.4+"
href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" />
what does the + mean? Is it some sort of wildcard for "the current
version"?  any 1.4.* ?

How would you convert a 'BigDecimal' number to a 'BigInteger' ?  I cant seem
to be able to do this.
More specifically, lets say I had the BigDecimal 5.0000, and wanted to
convert this to 5  , and then have Java treat that as '5'  in BigInteger

I have 2 questions refering to native2ascii:
1.I receive an xls-file from a japanese windows-user. It has two
columns: key for a properties-file and japanese text value for this
key. I intend to create a properties-file from this, which I may run