I need to store very small numbers in my database, generally something
like 1.2516E-128. I'm using BigDecimal is Java to manipulate these
numbers however when storing them in MS SQL server as a double they are
converted to 0. SQL Server will only allow a a double with a scale of

I'm using HTTPClient (http://www.innovation.ch/java/HTTPClient/) to test my
webapplication (Apache Tomcat), trying to simulate the load of several
simultaneous online users. Each user in an own thread, logged in with an own
session, and repetedly requests the same page 100 times in ...

I am creating a simple jdbc application which connects to various
databases. I am using level 4 (datadirect) jdbc drivers.
All works great.. :)
Issue comes if my database password has a semicolon. then my user is

I got a problem with toArray method on ArrayList object.
      ArrayList<String> _hidden = new ArrayList<String>();
      String[] hidden = new String[_hidden.size()];
      hidden = (String[]) _hidden.toArray();

Why do methods of an interface have to be public? Couldn't they be
'package', or even 'protected'?
The immediate answer would be no, because conceptually, an interface
is a sort of specification that tells the world what to expect from

A while ago, Dale King asked why we have type erasure.
Erasure would make sense if Java 1.5 code had to run of earlier JVMs,
but - as has been noted - code compiled for Java 1.5 rarely works
at all on earlier JVMs - and can't be easily targetted at them.

I have an client application (written in C++) using gSOAP to send SOAP
message to java web service, for one of the input parameter, C++
application is sending Japanese text as MBCS format to gSAOP, In the
sever side, Java Web Services is not able to convert from MBCS to

JTables are new to me.
How can I add a listener to a JTable
such that when I click on a row it causes
some type of action method to be called.

Anyone know if there is a Java API for visio, I just want to read the
information not display it?
thanks
Jon

Why this code not working?
byte[] buf = new byte[10000];
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("php -n 1.php");
p.getErrorStream().close();

Why this code not working?
byte[] buf = new byte[10000];
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("php -n 1.php");
p.getErrorStream().close();

I have an application need to detect the hard links within the unix
file systems. how to detect it and how to get the target path of this
link points to in Java?
thanks a lot

If 'System' is a class,
 what exactly is 'System.out'  ?
And apparently 'println' is a public method of object 'System.out'.
If 'System.out' is an instance [public object] of Class 'System',

I'm building an app which interfaces a tool which in turn opens files.
My app is a server app, run as service, and will open files on other
computers on the network. So, how do I open the network connections
needed to be able to access remote files? I've up until now managed

              I wan to read file by
       InputStream in = getClass().getResourceAsStream("1.txt");
            but I always got fail message even in emulator, I am using sony
ericsson J2ME WTK2 toolbar.