My problem: I want to burn a 1.2 gig file to CD, which obviously only
fits 700megs. So normally I would just use *nix split. However, I only
have at most 700 megs free hd space - split doubles the hd space
required. However, between swap and ram memory I have about 1 gig - and

Is the URLConnection class capable of being subclassed to create custom
protocol connections?  Protocol in this case refers to ANY and ALL
protocol specified in RFC, e.g ftp, news, smtp, irc, nntp, and several
hundreds more or so....

I noticed that most of the abstract methods in DatagramChannel and
SocketChannel are the same.  Why didn't Sun put those methods higher up
by creating a class that extends AbstractSelectableChannel?

Hi group
Is there some way to emulate in Java the semantics of the C-style
function-level static variable that preserves its value across function
calls ?

Is there a JAVA api that is similiar to gethostbyname() in C? i want to
check a string to see if it can be resolved to IP address. What API
should i use?
Thanks

What I really want to do is set the look and feel according to
platform, win-lnf for windows, gtk-lnf for linux. I don't have a mac to
try it on, but the same for mac would make sense.
When I use getSystemLookAndFeelClassName() I still get the butt ugly

I want to bind Source->Format in Eclipse 3.1 to a key.
It allows some key bindings to be configured - but not that one.
What's going on there?
Is it possible to rebind the "Format" command at all?

installed the Sun Java System Application Server 8 recently. I run the
"asadmin start-domain --verbose domain1" command to try to start it,
however, it didn't happen. i'm using windows 2k server SP$.
thank's!

If enum type cannot be subclassed, using MouseWheelEvent and MouseEvent
as an example where the former is the latter's subclass, how can the
constants be made into enum type?
Static constants from MouseEvent:

I am working on some similarity measuring techniques in which I need to
find the similarity between terms and documents. Both are represented
by Vectors i-e a vector consists of few terms (3 or 4 terms) and
another vector consists of "representative terms of document" (these

For my non gui classes, instead of using a collection to store my
listeners, I am using the EventListenerList class from the
javax.swing.event package.
Is that a good idea?  I read that it's not a good idea to mix gui

I'v a problem showing a HTML page in a JEditorPane. My page is
including applet tags. Is there any way ?
Thank a lot

                         I really need some advice and guidance on the
following code
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.*;

How do I create a Win32 exe from a Java project? I've seen some tools
but they're not Open source. Any ideas and/or instructions?
Thanks

I have two pieces of sample code which are listed below. I dont understand
two points.
1. why so many exceptions (IOException, JMSException, etc), normally we just
catch Exception. Is there any advantage?