What is the easiest way to clean a text from everything that is unwanted?
Lets say I want
[abc {options}]
where the starting "[", the "abc" and the ending "]" are required, and the

my Servlet creates a zip-File on the fly and works fine, but with https
and IE 6 there is a problem:
The filename in the Download-Box of IE is not correct and the file
extension .zip isn't there.

I have an application with a login window.  I have to enter username and
password and click OK button. The application needs 6-7 seconds to verify
username and password. What I really need is to know how I can change the
mouse icon from arrow icon to glass icon (after I click OK ...

I want to make a java program that goes through a site and analyse it's contents
for my purpose. So basicly the only thing i want my program to do is to go
through the sites internal links, read the source code and pick out and list
some information to me.

I know that we need to make the object serializable before putting them in a
Session for web environment.
Do we need to do the same if we are putting the object in a Request?
Regards,

I need to save my object into XML file.
I am looking for something like myDomStucture.storeIntoXMLFile() that
saves it into XML file. Not parsing my object and outputting line by
line into XML file.

hi ng,
what i wanna do is to exec a bash-command from the java code. this
command should create  an archiv. when i print the command w/
System.out.println it does what i want, so the bash syntax is correct.

I am trying to extend the linkedlist class to be able to handle
customized objects.  Such as a class that contains a string, and a
number of integer values...
I do not expect a solution to be posted here, but it would be an

Does anybody know of a simple open source parser I can use to do simple
String comparisons that are slightly more involved then a standard
inString, for example with Ands, Ors and Nots in.
For example if the users enter expressions in the format "A && !(B ||

hello Friends,
While writing the program for sending mail.
I am getting the exception:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/mail/Message

Problem statement:
We have a simple tcl script, and it takes a set number of params as
input (argv). Usually 1-10 params.
The script builds some objects.

If I have a build file sitting in a jar, is there a way to execute an
ant script from within that build file?  If so, how?
Thanks, as always, for the help.
hust6

I just noticed it at:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#cast(java.lang.Object)
But I can't figure out what benefit it provides.  Can anyone come up
with a usage scenario?

To AnyOneThatCanHelp,
I want to know how is it possible to emulate a keyboard in java. The
purpose of this is so that the emulated keyboard can interact with
other programs as if it were a normal keyboard and also the emaulated

java gurus,
i'm seeing some odd behavior running a process via Runtime.exec on redhat
linux (seen it on RHEL AS 2.1, 3, 4) with 1.4 and 1.5 JVMs (the only ones
i've tried).  if i start a specific process via Runtime.exec and set up