I'm getting a very weird NullPointerException from deep in the bowels
of BufferedReader.readLine(), and having looked at the 1.5 source for
the library I'm not the wiser how this can happen -- the library code
for BufferedInputStream.read() (the actual source of the exception)

Can anyone explain to me why:
   class Test<X>
   {
        static X x() { return null; }    // line 3

How can I access an encapsulated Java int array from a
native method, given the Object that declared it?  ie, can
anyone replace the 3rd & 4th lines in the first native method
below with actual code that does the job?

    We have a Java Web-Application that we are going to re-architecte. It
has been build in the rush and now it has poor evolution perspectives.
There is no complex processing in the application. It is a kind of
Contact Management system which display reports on the Contact Activity. ...

i want to compile java application and run it at the tomcat with mysql
at cygwin.
it's because the dev environment is windows while the production
environment is unix/linux. it's easier to have the same path setting

i want to make a servlet which would return a bean when it would be
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how ?

I'm working on a streaming data server which accepts a query, then
sends any matching data that comes in after the query was submitted.
The problem I'm having is that when a client sends a query then later
goes away, I'm not always able to detect the situation to cancel their

What would be an equivalent way to print out the contents of the
current directory in Java? Also, how would I change the current
directory to list files in other directories?
Thanks,

Had a java design question to get what people think and what is
generally done. I've started to embrace more the use of throwing
exceptions (I'm an old C programmer did not have such a thing always
return codes) particular in the design of common code.  I have been

I'm new to jsp and xml. I don't expect anyone to code my solution for
me but I have NO IDEA which way to go to learn what I need to know in
order to get this done. I bought a few books which have helped but I'm
basically stuck. I have some background in programming (ASP, VB) but

You may not have been able to access the main java glossary page
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html
today.
The Novell server somehow locked the file during an upload leaving it

Not sure if this is the correct group, but...
I have the following jsp page, basically i want to append some text to
the username before the form is submitted, is this possible?
Thanks

I am using MyEclipse.
Thanks.

I am in the learning stages of using JSPs, and i am tryin to write a
utility which will unzip a file on a server (this is because i have had
to much trouble uploading a folder with the unzip'd contents...i.e.
100s of files).

I am visiting a web page (via URLConnection) which is supposed to spit
out four cookies.  Using the standard:
String cookie = conn.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie");
only gives me the last cookie in the header.  I know I can manually