I want to develop  MSN/ICQ agent, when I not in office, it can
help me to answer some question automatically.
But I don't know how to catch the message of MSN/ICQ.
maybe email is ok.

I just discovered you can't use the new for:each syntax here:
for ( Enumeration e = zip.entries(); e.hasMoreElements(); )
   {
    ZipEntry entry = (ZipEntry)e.nextElement();

i'm writing a new component, that would show a recatangle with the same
size of the component. The matter is that, when i use the component
alone, all works right. When i use with other components the custom
component don't resize. What can be the problem? How can i solve it? I

Suppose a class needs data from a resource, i.e. some
file alongside in the .jar with the class file. This
data needs to be read only ever once, because it
is not about to change and is not supposed to change.

I recently heard about a java technology which I thought I remembered being
called TSON or something similar but was apparently not :-(
IT was a method of distributing serialised objects by what looked like a
ascii template to me.

 For SSLSocket, the getInputStream method is very slow, running on XP
with jdk1.5
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(sslSocket.getInputStream()));

I remembered that I changed the line ediing of my code to unix-like
ended line "\n" so that when I opened the source code in UNIX, the code
will looks like the same as the code that is opened using IDEA in
Windows. I forgot to how I changed that. Anyone know how to do it?

My client connects to an HTTP server by opening a
socket, starting a separate thread to feed it with
data and reading the response in the main
thread. The feeder thread basically does this:

i've written a small programme and want to test the main method. the problem
is that if the parameters are wrong and the programme terminates, JUnit
cannot detect it and the test result would be pass. if i use System.exit(1),
JUnit cannot catch the termination status and the ...

I am using BoundedFifoBuffer from Apache Collection to enqueue and
dequeue Minute object (I defined this object). I find there is no
contructor in BoundedFifoBuffer that I can pass a Comparator object.
If I don't pass a Comparator object, "contains" method in

I have a question with clone() in java collection.  Check the following
code:
import java.util.*;
/**

I would like to process an XML document with a Java application,
utilizing the Apache Xerces SAX2 parser.
Based on the name of an element and the value of its specific
attributes, I would like to perform some processing on the data that

Hi, excuse this silly question.
I know Java runs on Windows, Unix, mobile phones and other things. But
there are different versions to download depending on your operating
system. For example, in Windows for full java you get java.exe and

An interface I'm implementing defines an initialize(Properties props)
method.
To have access later to the parameters I was passed is it better / safer to:
* hold a reference to the props instance (via a member variable)

6. Using the protected keyword gives a member:
a. public access.
b. package access.
c. private access.