I am trying to write a command line utility to query Active Directory
and process the results into an Oracle database. We would like to have
this app run as a scheduled task, however I am not able to connect to
the LDAP server without entering a username and password in clear text

I have an application whose purpose is to open, display and rezise TIFF
files.
My application is written mainly in Java, but it uses C/C++ through
JNI.

I find this pattern occurs repeatedly:
String quotation = accumulatedQuotation.toFinalString();
 if ( quotation.length() > 0 )
    {

Hi.  I wanted to use exceptions to handle error conditions in my code.
I think doing that is useful, as it helps to separate "go" paths from
error paths.  However, a coding guideline has been presented that says
"Use conventional error-handling techniques rather than exception

We have a strange problem when Java talks to SQL Server 2000.
The following query runs great when executed from Query Analyzer.
SELECT prlc_plis_code, prlc_cust_id, prlc_startdate,
prlc_enddate, prlc_type FROM   PriceListCustomer WHERE 1 = 1

I have a java program that needs to work with raw pixel data captured
from the screen. Currently I have the code that captures and processes
the data on the native side (in C++) -- and the results of the
processing, which are small amounts of data, are passed back to Java.

I am in the process of deploying a application using a jar file and
packaging the application using inno setup for deployment to windows.
It would be great if the application could appear in the Programs group
with a nice icon and not the window command window icon. Can anyone

Was wondering if there was a better way to insatiate a class based on
some string variable read from a properties file then an if-then-else?
String s = "class1";
if (s.equals("class1"))

I was trying to make my little stack class type safe. Internally it
has a simple array to hold the stack elements.
How do I allocate an array of arbitrary type T?
public class Stack<T> {

It's probably something obvious, but this has me stumped:
Very simple code extracted from a proper main()
int x = 65;
int y = 55;

I am currently working on Images using Graphics 2D package. I have
created one Java application which load the user specified image into
the Java interface.
My requirement is to load the windows default editor from that Java

I have different type of messages to be handled in my app. I wrote a
base class like
BaseHandler {
public boolean perform() {

In the spirit of "most maintainable" code, I'm applying a factory method
to instantiate objects using part of a class name that's passed to the
factory method, followed by reflection and newInstance(). The code goes
something like this:

Was wondering what might be the better way to do something in java. I
have a class of static methods that are a library and I want to use the
java.  To do that I need to use the log variable I have setup already.
What is the best way to initialize and use that in the methods?

I'm working on a Java graphical frontend for a native X11 application
and I'm trying to embed the native application window inside a Java AWT
Canvas using the AWT Native Interface. Everything works great except
for mouse events which seems to be ignored by the native window.