I am currently trying to do an application that does
the upload as well the download of files from a http server that needs
authentication.
The thing is i am not very sure where to begin and i am open to any

I am looking for a way to get a file stream from a unix account (access
with serverName, account, password) on remote server.
How can I do it?
What is the best protocol?

I have a small and pretty simple applet. It's little more than a single
(nested) dialog.
Under IE 6.0.28 with JVM1.5 some sub-components
of the dialog have the wrong sizes (too small).

I would like to prompt the user for a password and turn off echoing
what the user inputs ("stty echo off" command in unix). Is this
possible in Java?
I really appreciate any input.

This could be a language for the next ten years (i think):
http://corn.telefonia.pl/
Does anyone try it already ?

I always use IllegalArgumentException when the parameter suplied is invalid.
When is a good time to create a custom Exception class rather than using
IllegalArgumentException?

How can i open my com1 communicate with com2 in same computer ?
What type of cable should i use to connect com1 and com2 ?
I am using java + comm.jar to control com port.
Please help.

I seem to have this problem no matter what OO-based language I'm using,
so this is probably not Java-specific. How much accessor/modifier
complexity do you put in your data objects? Do your data objects have
only the standard get/set combos for all data structures, or what

I am trying to associate java class files with Jad (in Windows) so that
when I click on a class file it is decompiled on-the-fly and displayed
in wordpad.
I have written a bat file which is executed when a class file is

I have a excel sheet in CSV format. I want to parse the cell contents
row by row and update it to different tables with cell data.
Consider that excel sheet has 12 columns.
Out of 12 columns, first 3 are coulmn values are inputs for updating

What API exists to merge two in-memory dom trees? I saw importNode but
not sure if it handles the merge in all cases (e.g new child elements,
deleted child elements re-parenting etc).
Is importNode the right API ?. Is there any other api or code that

I have simple class Student like this:
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class Student{
    String studentName;

Hi everyone,
I am trying to read emails in from a stmp server without javamail api's
and i so far have only managed to read the e-mail messages but i can't
seem to read any attachments that come with it. I am not very sure as to

HI, I need generate a character matrix of any character, for example
6x10 matrix
Anyone knows any algorithms to do this problem.
T T T T T T

Something about enums and I really click.
I'm finding the enum pattern really helps chaotic code that deals with
doing different things in different situations.  If I can come up with
some sort of enum to classify the situations, the code becomes