I was shocked to notice that Javaws.exe has devolved. It is no longer
an end user tool to manage jawaws apps.
IIRC you used to be able to put a file on the command line. Now you
need a weird URL file://localhost/E:/mindprod/webstarts/esper.jnlp

Can anyone tell me the whats the difference between the resource bundle
and Properties classes in java.
As both uses the .properties file  to get the string constants.
At what point of time would the programmer decide to choose which of

I am using j9 on my device and when I display text on form, two
things happen:
1) text is arranged in too many lines (too much empty space is on
the left and on the right at each line) :(

how to install java documentaion, so
that it is availanle inside the NetBaens IDE, and in all
context/tool-tips
What package I need ? (gentoo)

I have a method that calls it's self (i.e. recursion).  I have a local
variable there that for compiler reasons they want initialed (i.e. to
null to start).  But when you recall it it makes it null again.  static
doe snot seem to work for method variables only class variables.  ...

hi there .. im running into a strange problem while deploying an
entity bean ..
these are my xdoclet tags:
* @ejb.finder

I am exploring what I can do with my first page of jsp. I have included
a useBean action which allows me to access the state of a class so that
I can display it.
If the bean has session scope then, when I call the page several times,

this problem has kept me busy for several days now. i'm implementing a
board game that logs the moves as they are done in a file. at the end of
the match the file is renamed by giving it a timestamp in it's name.
however, the renaming is not succeeding. actually i rename 2 files at

Just wondering if I need java sdk as well to run java programs?
Cheers!

For each table in my database, I have created a seperate class (java-beans
style) whose attributes matches to the columns of its table. If its a
foreign key then the datatype is actually another class.
CREATE TABLE LOCATION (

I am trying to set up a secure website.  Each page will require user
authentication.  The majority of this website is written in servlets
and JSPs.  I was wondering what the most secure approach would be.
If I use a login page, that login page will need to send the parameter

My friend has excel and wants to call a java
program (I can write it) when she clicks a cell in excel.
Can I do it? Can I pass data back and forth?

I was wondering, when a client closes a socket connection to a NIO based
server, is an active attempt to read from that channel the only way to
detect a disconnect or should a READ_OP key be selected at some point
without the active attempt to read?

The following will not show the image nor will it throw any exceptions. Not
throwing exceptions doesn't surprise me because the documentation show that
it won't. That is a little surprising in itself. I am not using Swing
components.

I'll try and keep this brief so in a nutshell:
I have large distributed java system running on a Windows 2003 server
(4cpu 8Gb memory).
Periodically the following exceptions occurs in the servers: