Is there a state of the art way/tool of creating a windows exectuable
EXE which exectutes java etc?
Similarly, can you create ELFs for Linux etc that can do that? Or should
one write its own C program and compile that to the required architecture.

Hi I am new to Java (one week) and as such it is driving me mad.
I am trying to read the information out of a TextArea but I am getting
an AWI-eventQueue-0 exception. The code is as follows where test is a
TextArea. The reason it is cracking me up is that it works fine if I

Hi all, This will probably sound like a really simple question but is there
any way of calling javadoc from the command prompt on a load of files and
having the resulting files put into a different folder called doc for
example. I usually type javadoc *.java from the folder where ...

I am writting an Applet (not a JApplet) and I have all the GUI ready,
with panels and panels inside panels. In one of this panels I need to
show an Image, but I can't work out how to do it. The image keeps
showing in the background of the applet, so the panels cover it. I have

I'd quite like this feature
import my.package.MyClass.myMethod; // import all overloaded versions of
myMethod
I want to see my dependencies broken down more and self documented up top

An event object is typically of concrete type, and passes between packages,
so is it a transfer object?  It seems to fulfil the role of one.
Is an event object considered so trivial that it is not equipped with an
interface? ie does the reasoning go, "how else would you implement ...

I would like to analyze the source code of a larger Java / J2EE projects
repeatedly (every 4 weeks). Therefore I am looking for adequate tools
(commercial or open source) which offer following functionalities:
(1) Good visualization of Java packages, classes, interfaces, optionally

Where are the JavaDocs for the Java Media Framework? [1]
<http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/>
( Preferably for on-line browsing, but as part of a download
bundle would be sufficient )

I've got two generics-related warnings I can't figure out how to fix.
The first one is implementing a simple Comparator class for Object, to
sort an array that will mostly be Comparable objects, but may have
some non-Comparable ones thrown in, in which case I don't care about

I have two threads created sending messages to eachother (sockets). For
every received message each thread a (not shared) counter, which is
increased for each received message. The counters are output to screen
all the time.

class safe {
public static int foo;
public static void setfoo (int x) { foo = x; }
public static void getfoo() { return foo; }

I'm wondering if there is a way to change the wallpaper from a java
program, and/or refresh the wallpaper somehow, or maybe overwrite the
wallpaper .gif or .jpg through the filesystem in order to modify the
wallpaper?

I've read a few rumours on the web about ejc, a natively build version
of the Eclipse compiler. Apparently, someone managed to compile the
eclipse compiler using GCJ and it runs really fast:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/rhug-rhats/2003-07/msg00008.html

I declare and define an instance of JMenu in the
constructor of my JFrame-class. Then I use
setJMenu(JMenu) to attach the menu to the
main window. It works well, I can use the

I'm still a little fuzzy on the best way to document it when I override an
inherited method.
At the moment, I have a JApplet that overrides the JApplet init() method and
have an @Override that is not within a Javadoc comment, like this: