I would like to know the following
concerning J2ME development practices:
What is the point of having both a manifest.mf in the .jar file itself
and a separate JAD file containing more or less the same information?

I am working on a browser based reporting tool and would like to give
the client the option to save the reports in excel and pdf forms.
The reporting tool is a part of a WebLogic (Java) based application.
Ideally I would like to use a Java package that can generate both pdf

My <operator> tag in XML can take any of the following values:
"<", ">", and "<>"
I enter the data this way in the xml:
<operator>&lt;</operator>

i have a login form and i need to validate all the fields are required
as well as the email is a valid email. when i use the following code on
top it prints out the required error messages for all the fields but i
want it to print it out only once.

I guess I'm just confused how they really work. I know to some of you
this will be easy to explain and once I understand it I'll be fine but
I'm just not exactly sure how they work.
I'm trying to write a quiz program where the first thing on the applet

Anyone know of the existence of a fuzzy logic library for Java?
I turned up a reference for Jaffeine but it doesn't seem to be available
anymore.
TIA

People that are intersting in native XML programming can download the
RefleX engine freely here :
http://reflex.gforge.inria.fr
RefleX is available under the french license CeCILL, which is almost the

I know Java and standard Java API.
I want to learn how to create java apps for mobiles.
Where to start?
thanks

//quiz program
import java.applet.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.awt.*;

I;m trying to do a printjob in java. But there is somthing I do not
understand.
I can;t use the Printable function. I;m using Jbuilding According to
JBuilder this function exists. When I'm trying to compile my project I'll

Perhaps I am from the spoilt generation but rather than typing
import com.myproject.framework.locale.*;
import com.myproject.framework.logging.*;
import com.myproject.framework.util.*;

i am currently having a problem convincing a consortium of
non-programmer friends that java or java with JNI can do just as well,
if not better than pure c or c++ or c# for a commercial game that our
group is developing.

I have an indent image at cretin angle (to look it like 3D), and I put
it in the back of an Label, with grid format there are several labels
on it which indicates as tiles further they used for path finding.
My problem is the image is in parallelogram shape but the tiles are

Right now, if I get an object of a generalized class, for example
Message, I have to do an instanceof to cast the object to a more
specialized class and then call the specialized method with an
appropriate cast. For example:

I'm trying to resolve some compiler warnings that I've simply ignored for
quite a long time. Many of them are pretty obvious but I've come across a
few that aren't clear to me at all. One of these involves Serializable.
I have several occurrences of warnings of this type: "The ...