According to the docs, I thought I could get rid of those
 warning: [unchecked] unchecked conversion
at well defined places. I am using build 1.5.0_04-b05 which
seems to be the most recent one. I am using

this is just to inform you all that i just joined this group,i am
looking forward to learning java.

I have seen various discussion entries about the poor performance of the
JComboBox additem method when there are a large number of items in the
control.
The proposed route to improvement is invariably to use a

Dear Joe,
It is well known that you are an avid hater of Microsoft, from their
technologies to their leader to their business practices. I have now
and then seen your impassioned expression of this hatred, scattered

I want to add a JPanel that has a border to a JFrame. Here's what I did:
public class Test2 extends JFrame
{
   ...

I'm trying to find tutorials - how to create simple chatterbot in JAVA. Can
anyone tell mi where can I find any - or examples of source code on the
internet? Maybe good book - but mostly about  chatterbot ??
Subject is very interesting I've read a lot about it but I need more

I am wondering if anyone has any experience, can recommend, any open
source public licensed source code analysis and code coverage tools,
such as PMD, jester and jlint.
For both, I am interested in how well they seemed to work, how well

What are some ways to unit test a GUI application.  For example, I have
an application that is driven by the interface, meaning all the logic
is in the widgets.   I am not used to GUI development.  The only way I
can think of testing the system is by looking at it and seeing if

I want to get the following arrangment of buttons:
#       button 0      #
# button 1 ## button 2#
but I'm getting this instead:

import java.util.*;
public class Bla<T> {
 private List<T>[] ary = new ArrayList[10];
 private class InnerClass<T> {

I developed a MIDlet that makes use of the IP network. Every time it
access the network I have to confirm that the MIDlet is allowed to use
the network.
How can I trust the MIDlet that it is always allowed to access the

I have an applet and I will be asking the user to allow it to write to
their computer. This is more to store files so that they will not have
to download the same files everytime the visit. The user base is very
small at this time (6 people).

I have a close and open method in a class containing fireCloseEvent()
and fireOpenEvent() respectively to fire a custom event.
What if in order not to create a custom event, I do it such that I
create a 'state' class variable and change the state when it is closed

I have an application where the servlets generate XML and their output
goes through an XSLT filter. This all works fine, except when I try to
use RequestDispatcher's include() method to paste in some external
content. Whenever I try to do this, the XS:T filter bombs out with

System properties "user.region" and "user.timezone" have been quietly
dropped from the documentation and the system properties list.
Any word on why?