I am not sure if I am posting this in the right NG, sorry, if I am not.
My question involves trying to call Excel from Java, in much the same
way, VB can create an instance of Excel thru COM and take control of
that instance of Excel.  Is there such a way in Java?  Thanks for

I am using a class, from an api, called JavaClass. I contains data about
 the class. I will extract the following data:
String className
Field [] field

Well, in fact the message reads:
Machine.java:19: mergeWith(Action<capture of ? super CDTA>) in
Action<capture of ? super CDTA> cannot be applied to (Action<capture of
? super CDTA>)

Given an int[][] array of RGB color data (or, alternatively, a
Color[][]) how can I create and save a .BMP file of this data?
I've been search the newsgroups and archives here but can't find any
sample code, though I imagine this is pretty easy to do....

Where is the startup code for struts based application placed ? I am
looking for something similar to "main" method where I can read
application config properties, set application scope attributes etc.
TIA

I write lines like this:
Arrays.sort( anArray );
Collection.sort( anArrayList );
Collection.sort( anArrayList, new DescendingNumerically() );

I know that in C++ you can return a constant reference to an object
like this:
int& foo()
{

If I have a class that has, among others, several fields such as
public class SomeClass {
    private long startTime...
    private long endTime...

This is in regards to a job opening for MNC client , the following are
job decription :-
Job Description :-
1) Core Java, Applet,Java Swing, JDBC

I am using Apache Axis and am trying to set up a document style
(message based) webservice that will receive a DOM object, modify that
DOM object, and return it as a new DOM object.
I have set up my webservice (a very simple one to get this going):

This is not actually a Java question but there are no more DOS people
active.  How do you do a sleep or a beep (duration, frequency) in DOS
at the assembler level?
Think of it as a JNI question.

I add this line to my Form class in its validate method:
 actionErrors.add("Name", new ActionMessage("errors.invalid"));
Pressing the submit button on the page that trigger the validation
I now get an exception (it got no exception before adding the above

I recently saw some code that looked like the example below ..
my question is why the developer used
"this(SOME_WORDS)" in the constructor for SomeClass.
Seems to me that the static string array SOME_WORDS would have been

what is the diference between xerces , JDOM, SAX , and DOM

I am pricing options for hosting off Java enabled servers.
My current host* has become a problem and unless it
can be fixed soon - I am moving my sites.
The basic requirements are..