I'm a Java Certified programmer (310-035) and currently I'm working
with Swing GUI components in my job.
I would like to ask if anybody knows if there's any certification exam
for Swing-AWT. I know this topic was removed from the programmers exam,

There is a potential problem with inherited thread
priorities, described in a recent tech tip from Sun:
http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2005/tt0727.html#1
However, the SwingWorker class (3rd version) described at

i have one question.
I have two jar files. First is main program, second is a update program.
update jar run as first , check main program and download upadets. After
that he suppose to run jar with main program and close. But I don't know how

I m trying to connect to yahoo.com and show its header fields on an
applet.
The Problem i m having is that when i use any IDE to run this code, it
is working fine. but when i use class file in html code, The applet is

Since there appears to be no possibility that Sun will agree to any changes
to the functionality of java.text.DecimalFormat despite its manifold
deficiencies, are there any common workarounds or alternatives?
Examples of deficiencies:

Am writing a JNI wrapper class.
Are there any performance advantages of the JNI C routine calling a Java
method to set some variables all at once, or using SetIntField,
SetByteField, etc, to set the variables?

I'm having trouble with drawing transformed images.
On some images there are hair-lines displayed at the top or
left edge, which are not part of the original image data,
but seem to be an artefact of some process under the hood.

No doubt that XML has its great and countless benefits. *But*, haven't
programmers developed an out-of-control addiction to such data format?
This obsession of XMLing everything (build scripts, database mapping,
setup & configuration, ... etc.) without proper GUI tools to

I am trying to write a tool that allows interactive querying of
arbitrary Web Services.
I have a reasonable starting point, using Sverre Huseby's SOAPDebugger,
but it does not support complex types (or arrays).

We are trying to export data from jsp to excel using
response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
But after export, the file size(85MB) is becoming 10times more than the
normal excel(8MB, When copied the data manually).

The convention for choosing a package name is to use your registered
domain name, in reverse order.  What do you do if you don't have a
domain name and want to publish your package?

I have the following:
<jsp:include page="anotherPage.jsp">
    <jsp:param name="portletResponse" value="sdfasdfsd"/>
</jsp:include>

In a recent post I saw this line of code:

If we ignore the use of generics, we can rephrase this as

People usually feel very passionately about matters such as this one.
I have not seen any official pronouncement on it:
Do you prefer singular or plural names for:
1. arrays

I use the following code to provide the socket communications for a
client/server application. At this point the main thread has accepted a
client socket connecti0on over the server socket and has spawned a client
thread that services the request via this code.