Can someone tell me why the "if" statement will not return "Year is
2005"?
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public class StringMain {

Hi every body
I am new to multi thread programming.
Now I have to control multi request for multi file accessing(offcourse
read and write) under servlet container.

Or do people write their own.
Why is Java so messy ?
Why didn't they look at other languages before they started writing this
dog's breakfast of a language?

Any opinions for or against using inner classes to implement the State
pattern in Java?  In particular, this would mean making the abstract
state class and its derived specific state classes all inner classes of
the context class.

I have a method where a Thread needs to complete a task independently
of another task outside my Thread on the main Event Dispatching Thread.
However, I don't want to leave the method goTask() until the Thread t
completes.

In the pre Swing days, Dialogs would accept input, but how did they
get it back to the caller? Did the caller have to implement an
acceptor interface for the Dialog to call or was there some easier
way?

Not sure whether this question is in any way related to lack of
caffiene in my blood, so I leave it upto you guys to decide.
I have a UI that has a simple Table - User can create one, modify one
by adding/deleting rows and columns, rename columns etc.

how to change image (png | bmp | jpg) to EPS??

How do I put a semicolon inside a string (ie so I can print out a
string including ";").
I don't seem to be able to find any solution on the web, so I am
throwing it out to the experts ;)

Is there any java switchbar (not sure of the corrent term) component?

I am writing an application with multiple threads to insert data into
database. Each thread is responsible for inserting the data to the same
table. While I run the application, sometimes I got the following
deadlock exception. This exception does not happen very often, only

If you can help me I'd be very grateful and you will be earning
yourself some good karma.
I am looking for a ticker that will read from a text file on my server,
starting from the bottom line ideally and reading upwards. (or does

I am trying to learn Java Servlets on my own. And then I will move on
to JSPs. However, to learn Servlets I think it would be a good idea to
have a (very) small example website handy to read/study code and
understand the concepts.

I have a HashMap that maps names to objects they represent.
Client Code needs to search based on some string that cd be anywhere
within the name? Whats the best way to achieve this ?
FOr instance,

We are trying to run a batch Cobol program which calls a Java code
which is on the USS in mainframe. When we tried running the job using a
few input hundred records everything goes fine, but when we tried
running the same code with around a few thousand records (around 5000)