I have a simple class that basically stores some data in a char[][] plus
some extra useful things about it, and in an attempt to pass an
arbitrary number of these objects back and forth through method calls
I'm storing them all in a Vector.  When I compile, javac tells me I

Anyone know any good articles that talk about static members and
threads. I want to know if I declare any members of a class as static,
can it be seen in other threads, or how they might be seen across
threads, is the vm dependent, or if I shouldn't do this at all ...

I am trying to parse an XML document that starts with the following tag:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252' ?>
This is causing an error::
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The encoding "windows-1252" is not

What I need is a Java Applet that is capable of displaying a PDF
document within a web-browser.
The applet MUST NOT rely on any plug-in, etc. It must be able to
display PDF files on its own without any help from the browser.

Does anyone know a way of regulsting the flow of data through a buffered
output stream. ie I would like to limit the output to say, 10kb/sec via
multiple threads. Would I need to change the buffer size or implement a
Thread.sleep in the loop or some other way?

What sort of data structures would be best for storing a document for a
word processing program in memory (it supports images/text and various
font sizes/faces... think Microsoft Word)? I got this wrong in an
interview and am curious about it.

We are trying to export data from jsp to excel.  As there is problem
with size of excel being downloaded, we are using POI which solved our
problem of memory and time taken to download. But now we are not able
to access the file from the client. The problem is as follows.

I am having a problem in using copyProperties() of
org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils class
I am doing it in this way
BeanUtils.copyProperties(destBean,srcBean)

Hi I was wondering if it was legal to distribute sun's j2ee.jar.
If anyknows could they point me to where it is documented.
thanks
Rob.

I'm using Tomcat 5.5.9 on Windows 2000. I get the error below when I
try to visit a page of my app that accesses the DB.
I've tried putting the DB driver "mysql-connector-java-3.1.8-bin.jar"
in these locations:

I try read tiff files from disk by JAI API.
But sometimes a get error. For Example:
(Function reading a tiff is taken from JAI tutorial)
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 380368

I found I needed to build a regexp for a legal JNDI name.  Tracing
through the schemas, it appears that a JNDI name is supposed to be a
"xsd:token", which has a curious definition.  From the definition, it
doesn't have leading or trailing spaces, or carriage returns, line

Sometime ago on the comp.lang.c, I saw a teacher's post asking why C
compilers produce so many error messages as soon as a closing bracket is
missing. The response was simply because the compiler can't tell where a
bracket is missing.... a few weeks have past, I requested a feature ...

I have 2 applications: one is stand-alone and one is using J2EE container.
So for Connection logic I wrote code to support both DataSource (to be used
by J2EE app) and DriverManager (to be used by stand-alone app). So
public interface ConnectionManager {

I'm trying to use the Expression language in a JSP page but I cannot
get Tomcat to enable EL evaluation.
In Web.xml I have the following:
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