I appreciate the suggestions - I'll look into them - thanks very much chaps

I've inherited a web application which has had a number of developers
working on it over the years and has turned into a bit of an ugly brute.
As I go through and tidy it up before I start the real work of fixing bugs
and adding features, I'm finding that large swathes of code are ...

I finished the applet and everything works in using the applet viewer.
When I open the htm file that opens the java class, everything works
until I get to my high scores screen. when I click that button, It
reads from a file and sorts out the high scores and then compares to

My applet runs in its own window frame after being invoked from a
browser. If I close the applet, the windowClosing event is detected as
it should be. If I close down the browser instead of the applet, then
the applet's windowClosing event is not called even though the applet

I have a very frustrating problem getting Javas regexes to run. I have
no idea what I'm doing wrong, since even the most trivial expressions
don't find any matches - even when I've tested and verified them in
other regex enabled tools like UltraEdit or so.

For Collection interface, the declaration of toArray() is:
<T> T[] toArray(T[] a);
Why do we have <T> at the start of the method declaration?
Thanks a lot

Does Java have a method to take a string with accented characters and
convert it to unaccented characters?  I want to search a big string for a
test string, ignoring accents on characters.
Doing the equivalent ignoring of case is simple:

hi, i'd like to have a good IDE for java, wich support j2ee...but i''d
like this IDE not to be written in java!
any one can help me?

http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051213_042973.htm
"Reports by Evans Data Corp., which does annual surveys of the
activities of software developers, show Java use is slipping as LAMP and
Microsoft's (MSFT) .NET technology gain traction. In North America ...

hi..
my jsp and property  files are encoded in UTF-8:
if i use this:
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>

I call a method is part of an external API.
This method has no timeout parameter on it.
I need to be able to control the maximum time it can try -- or else it
hangs my app.

needs some help.How can i find out what is the type of the object i
have stored in a arraylist in generics
please advice
Chanchal

Hi, for a christmas present for my grandpa I would like to make him a
checkers game.  He had a checkers game in Windows 3.1 that was exceptionally
simple - he gets confused when something isn't too terribly easy.
We've tried to find him new checkers games, but frankly they just ...

hi..
somone has told that struts is no longer a viable option as JSF will
take it's place, and any new web application should not use struts.

 I am trying to determine the data type of the return value of
HashMap.get(i). Is there some kind of operators or functions to do this?
 The keys of the hashmap is always Integer and the value object could be
either Integer or String.