I'm trying to get a parameter for my applet from the a web page but I
always receive a NullPointerException. I'm developing with JBuilder,
and debugging the code I can see the line:
this.getParameter("ProxyURL")

I am following an example from Chapter 1 of a book, and I created an HTML
file and a class file.
The HTML includes this line which pops up a window.
   <applet code = "first1.class"  width = 300 height = 200>

I'm adding 80368 words (sorted alphabetically) into different data
structures and then serializing the entire container into a file. The
times that I got are shown below (in millseconds), the first column
being the time taken to populate the container (by reading each word

Was 1.3 the first version of Java that let you do this?
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
 Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
 g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING,

I'm writing a swing application that needs to repaint() different
rectangular areas on a JPanel inside a loop. I've noticed, however,
that when a call to repaint() is in a loop, only the last call to
repaint() (in the last iteration) is actually called. Being that the

I've successfull configurated tomcat (5.0) to use the realms for
authenticating user.
Basically I have a set of roles and some security constraints for
limiting the access to some pages.

I want to use the Java Print Service(JPS) API to programatically send
PDF files to a printer. I need to send these files to the printer
without any user intervention.
I am able to print text files but have not been successfull in printing

is it possible to give a rectangle (class: Rectangle2D) a 3D-like
border? I'm relatively new to java and can't seem to figure out if this
is possible and how it could be accomplished.
Thanks.

I'm new to jdbc programming, and I can't find an answer for my problem.
Take for example this bunch of code:
protected void executeQuery( Connection con, String sqlStatement )
     throws Exception {

All,
The application (Running on Unix or Linux) that we are trying to
develop has the following requirements:
1. We need to prompt for password at the start of the java application.

All,
How do we bring and send a Unix process to foreground in Java?
Shekar Tippur

I'm looking for a free UML tool (not just for evaluation) to
draw class diagrams and sequence diagrams with.
Anyone knowing if there is any good?

I was unable to find a decent How-To for finding the PID of a Java
program running on Windows, that did not use JNI. Here is a solution
that uses netstat.
Hope this is useful. If you have a better strategy, let me know!

Is this true?
If I take a simple container class e.g .
public class Stack
and put <t> in like this

I have a serious cookie problem!
I save a lokale in a cookie and it works fine:
cookie file name in MS IE:
allan@app[1].txt