I'm writing a eclipse plugin. I need to read an xml file, do some
modification and write it back. But I have problem to locate the file
when I write back.
My code is following:

I have class MyClass, built in jar file MyClassJar.jar
This class uses a class ABC, which is built in ABCJar.jar
I've MyClassJar.jar in jre/lib/ext and ABCJar.jar in system classpath.
But while running the MyClass Java program, I get following exception

is there any way to do the job "CallByName" (as in VB)  for Java? We want to
build a hashtable which has the
names of java methodes with their parameters, and later all the methodes
will be called only by

I've started playing around with annotations.
I'm trying to find out, runtime, if a given method has an annotation:
@java.lang.annotation.Target(value =
java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD)

I'm using an <html:select> drop down box to list some items.  
here i just want to show only 15 items at a time. any attribute setting is
there in struts..?

This is flagrantly off topic. If you were charitable, you could
stretch things since Java started as a set top box language for TVs.
My puzzle is this.  How do cable TV companies regulate which channels
you get if you don't install some sort of descrambler box they

I have to extract the data from several tables (Oracle is the database)
and insert them into a file, in a specified format.
Each column will be allocated a certain size (filled with empty spaces if
size is too big), and I will assign a line for each record extracted from

Hi Could any one tell me why i am not able to install the j2sdk1.4.2_09
in my standalone sytem.(ie wihtout internet connection).
My system has windows XP OS, 512MB RAM.
When i try to install, i am getting the message as data1.cab might be

    I know static fields are always hosting in memory.But,how about
static methods? Are they always hosting in memory? I think they
aren't,but how are they running?
thanks,

When installing the J2SE Dev. Kit 5.0 Update3, it is installed
toghether with the so-called "private" JRE 5.0. Apart from that,
the installation program offers the possibility of installing a
standalone "public" JRE, which registers a Java Plug-in and Java

Can anyone suggest a workaround for the following problem?  I have a
constant (static, final) whose value is calculated at runtime, when the
class is loaded.  Because it isn't known at compile time, I can't use it in
a switch statement.  But I'd like to.

Sometimes when I compile a long .java file, I get two class files as a
result.  For example, the file servlet.java compiles to servlet.class and
servlet$1.class.  Does anyone know why the servlet$1.class file is created
and how to control it?

i have a native method, as folowws:
JNIEXPORT jobjectArray JNICALL l2cap_L2CAPImpl_L2CAOpen
(JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jbyteArray dev, jstring service, jboolean
auth, jboolean crypt)

Is there something about Swing that Internet Explorer doesn't like?
Before I started using it in my applet I could print the page through
IE, but now the applet just shows up as blank in the preview and if you
print.

I've just read a proposal for a new J2EE web system - or maybe a
cut-down version of an existing one. Regardless, there are some new
requirements. One of those is to record the IP address of the user.
I'm using Struts, so my Action objects get passed an