Hi, I have a server and an applet that connect. The server uses
SocketChannel and the applet uses plain Socket in a thread. When the
server closes the socket (or if the connection is just broken somehow),
I want the applet to recognize this and react.

I have been using Struts for years. I am now looking into JSF. I have
been told by many people that have used JSF this technology is
basically a replacement for Struts and is likely to replace is
completely soon. From what I have seen so far, JSF provides a very nice

Dear Tomcat users,
I have been using Tomcat 5.0.28 for more about half a year now and
everything had been working fine until today (Oct 6, 05) when, all of a
sudden, Tomcat can't seem to get cookies at all from MS Internet

I have the following problem:
I need to perform validation on an input parameter that is a String.
This String has to be one of the values of an enumeration.
The problem is that the enumeration type is not known until runtime - thus

I am programming a smtp proxy and i would like to parse the email (in
rfc 822 format). Does a library already exist ?
many thanks

is there a free Java library for displaying HTML? I would prefer one
that supports more recent versions HTML than classes like JEditorPane or
HTMLEditorKit do.
Thanks in advance,

I am trying to expand a Jtree to the newly added node... however I
can't seem to make it happen.
I've tried a number of things which I listed below, all of these were
tried seperately and together, however the Jtree still does not expand

i have multithread. each thread takes different amount of time to
complete their tasks. i want to collect all the results immediately as
soon as individuals finishes.
i dont want to use join method of thred. i want to make a

Hi, im trying to add a row to my custom Table class
the class extends JTable, and based on its contents, I do not believe
that it can successfully use the defaultTableModel's addRow function
because DefaultTableModel causes my application to crash when trying to

<hibernate-mapping>
   <class name="Event" table="EVENTS">
       <id name="id" column="EVENT_ID"> // type is missing !!
           <generator class="increment"/>

We´re trying to install java 1.5_05 on solaris 8. The download script
says solaris 9 - we could´nt find one for solaris 8. Anyways, when
running java -version we get NoClassDefFound on java.lang.object. We
set JAVA_HOME to:

I've read a number of articles which highlight the reason why you can't
type cast generics in Java. The classic example is casting a
List<Integer> to List<Number> or vice versa. This can't be done because
you can add a Float to a List<Number> but not to a List<Integer>. I

When running a CPU intensive task (that is divisible into threads) there
is typically a system dependent ideal number of threads to use depending
on the system load and the number of CPUs and the architecture.  There
doesn't seem to be an implementation independent way to get a hint ...

it's been 2 years since my last java-programming, and now i want
restart my connection to the java-universe ... but hell.. has been that
long ago ? i'm having trouble, not so much with the syntax and
architecture, but rather with the typical compiling errors,

Is there any way to have feature "mark occurrences" (known from eclipse
3x) in eclipse 2x (excpecially in websphere 5x)?
I tried to copy org.eclipse.jdt.ui plugin from eclipse 3, but it
doesn't work :(