java.lang.Object.class is java.lang.Class
but it doesnt have methods like forName() etc
then what is it, where does it come from?

Ok, what I am really looking for is a XML parser equivalently simple to
another I am use to.
I have used the JOX http://www.wutka.com/jox.html parser extensively.
It has some limitations but nothing show stopping. All-in-all, in 2

I wrote a text editing applet using a JTextArea or a JTextPane
(depending on what the user wants to write) and until now, all worked
fine (I work in Linux and Windows environment). But last day, I was
asking why the copy/paste didn't work under MacOS.

I'm stumped on a simple applet not loading for a client. This is an applet
that I - and everyone else it seems - is able to easily execute as it is
only a single class file, residing in the same server and directory as the
html page that contains it's simple applet tag:

I want to use Java Web Start for a non gui client. The client will have
no windowing so it has to be console only. Has anyone been successful
in using JWS in non-gui environments? if not, can you recommend another
type of an autoupdate runtime environment that requires no GUI but ...

I'm not clear how to write a vlaue to a file on the hard disk ... I
have the code below and wish to write the getValue() number to disk.
I am guessing that I need to call (with this value) a method to do
this but my following effort is wrong. Please see also the rest of the

I was trying to use libjvm.so on Linux when I faced this problem.
When I was using the JVM lib with first entry in jvm.cfg as -client
KNOWN, my JVM was created successfully with the client JVM lib path.
But the same failed with the server JVM lib path. When I specified the

ich habe eine Frage zu Eclipse 3.1 und die automatische Generierung der
serialVersionUID. Ab Eclipse 3.1 gibt es ja einen QuickFix, für die
Generierung dieser UID. Leider kann ich diesen QuickFix nur dann
aufrufen, wenn ich auch die entsprechende Compilereinstellung aktiviert

The much appreciated 'Java in a Nutshell' by David Flanagan is followed by 'Java
Foundation Classes In a Nutshell' by the same author.
Now he no longer enumerates functions in alphabetical order (simple and
straight) but in some sort of  'logical order'. It renders the whole book ...

We have developed and deployed the Java based application using JRun 4
plateform. Now there
is requirement to use Tomcat instead of Jrun4. Hence we have to migrate
our application on Tomcat.

I'm currently having a problem with the Struts validator.
I have a very simple Struts bean "EditionPersonneForm" (extending
ValidatorForm) associated with an action "EditerPersonneAction" and a
JSP form "EditerPersonne.jsp"

Guys,
I have been having a lot of problems with opening zip files in our web
application. It is deployed on Gentoo server (dual xeons, 4gb RAM)
running Tomcat 5.5.9.

I have some questions regarding exceptions:
* For my DAO retrieval methods should I have one exception handler or
mulitple exception handlers?
For example, say I have 2 DAO methods :

Hi - I need to create an web-based application that will allow users to
'upload' images and be able to zoom/pan the images.  Originally, i was
thinking of doing this via dhtml, but after looking at some of the
images they would be using, i relized it would be impractical due to

I've go some files (.doc, .pdf, etc...) that I need to programatically
send to a printer. I am working in a web based J2EE environment using
jdk 1.3. Can someone point me to a good resource to learn more about
how printing is done?