the following compiles okay, but throws a ClassCastException at
runtime. Why?
import java.net.*;
public class CastSocket extends Socket {

I currently need a bit of advice.
1) Is it true we cannot put integers or characters straight into a
hashtable.  The intergers or characters have to be first put into an
object-wrapper and then put into an hashtable?

Is it possible to start a new process
(Runtime.getRuntime().exec("someprog.exe")) from an Applet properly
signed?
I have it working and I can see it with Applet Viewer, but I've read

I have found a number of resources but have not been able to figure out how to emulate the
jsp:include tag behavior. In particular, the ability to resolve additional jsp tags defined within
the include page. For example,
<jsp:include page="mypage.htm" flush="true"> where mypage.htm ...

I'm trying to read the char[] of a String from JNI code.
I got the jchar* from the GetStringChars(... &isCopy) for now, and of
course it works.
But the isCopy is JNI_TRUE. So performance cost is knocking at the door...

The comments in the File javadoc state the following:
By default the classes in the java.io package always resolve relative
pathnames against the current user directory. This directory is named
by the system property user.dir, and is typically the directory in which

If I want to initialize my view only once with initial values,
where should I do it?
ActionForm's reset-method seems not to be the right place because it is
called every time if the view has e.g. a submit button. Action class

I was given a Compaq pocket PC with windows mobile 2002.
I immediately began looking into how to program it and Java seemed
initially to be a good choice.
To my surprise I found it wasn't as straightforward as Java for the