I have 20 components from a common base that respond to mouse input. Only one
component is active at a time and is accessed through a central component that
is assigned one of the 20 instances.
What is the best way to organize the mouse input? I can

A client has version 1.5.0_04 of the Java SDK installed, but get's the
following message when he tries to run our applet:
No Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition v 1.4 support for APPLET!!
Is it not backwards compatible? I'm trying to avoid the SUN applet

Imagine to have a  menu on the left loaded dynamically, each item  has its
own command to run.
In the rest of window I have a tabPane where I have to load the class I get
from menu.

Like? to call a Java Class from a Job in oracle

My team is using Hibernate. We are trying to get the Hibernate query
object to output pure SQL, not stuff like the following:
update T_CONTROL set id=?, max_order_number=?, max_requisition_number=?
where row_id=?

I have been working with Eclipse and some large enum classes. It has
pounded home an issue of language design I have been raising ever
since the 1960s.
The symptom is this.  I have a heavily nested structure of enum, enum

I have stared at the options, but I can see no way to get plain old
Javac.exe to compile a source tree without you explicitly listing all
the branches. Is this correct?

I've been assigned to work on a new Java development project. I have a
few years Java development experience but in another organisation. I
think I have started to become institutionalised and have lost my
ability to judge. Please help! We are building for us at least, a large

I am writing some code that looks at a class, and creates some
documents based on class references that it finds using the Reflection
API.  I can get all of the compponets in a class, and get references to
each object so that I can query it.

  I have an application which is in Java. It uses OpenJms to
publish and consume messages. I have a native C code application
which connects to a server on different machine. I am calling
native C methods from Java application using JNI. Problem is

INET column, it returns empty string.  If I do the same select from
psql, it shows the values.
Is there something I have to do in JSP to get the inet value?

i want to create file shortcuts using java, for
Windows/linux/unix/macosX.
Any idea?

Is there an easy way to convert a double to a String and specify the
number of decimal places? Let's say I only need 3 decimal places, so
the double 1.2345678 should be 1.234 as a String or 999.123456 should
be 999.123.

I have an RMI server that takes certain actions on a bean that is passed to
it. Because a lot of beans are being sent over the wire to the RMI server
every day I want to try to keep down the size of the serialized bean.
I am not using a web server or class server to download stubs ...

I started programming Java in 1998 and found it a neat language. Seven years
later, I found a lot has changed. The swing package is great and let you do
sophisticated things BUT...
but I fear that Java will not make it in the future. Why? Because there is a