public static void sneakyThrow(Throwable t){
Thread.currentThread().stop(t);
}
----It appears that you can throw exception from any point in  your

I am trying to  authenticate users in Apache Tomcat 5.5 from active
directory.
The way my users are structured in AD is there's a department root OU
and then sub OU's for each departments . The Groups OU is in its in OU.

What's the Importance of the avaliable() method in InputStream? Why
would i use it?
And what does available()'s method description in inputstream's javadoc
mean?: "Returns the number of bytes that can be read (or skipped over)

Just a little question from a begginner,
I would like to know if there is something like a "table" or a matrix of Vectors.
I am actually looking for something similar of a "Vector of Vectors", does Java
has a class that implements this?

I have a problem getting my RMI application to work. Having a RMI
Server app running in a VMWare that forwards port 1099 in a NAT
enviroment.
Physical machines IP on the outside = 9.154.38.47

All,
We have a program that uses JNI to call down to some native components
(native dll [ours] using jdk1.4 and 1.5).
Is there any way that we can find out how much processor load the

currently i am doing one application , in which i need to disable
caching ..I am using servlet and jsp..At what time(during request
process) i should disable caching and how it can be done.
please give some tips regarding my problem

i've watched a little bit the existing tools to help externalize
strings but none of them is really great. Does anybody know if the
described tool below exists?
- in IDE:

I spend a fair bit of time manually shrinking icons then trying to
touch them up to look decent.
I figure this process aught to be automatable.
1. when shrinking it does antialiasing.

I have some xml files that need to be read and/or updated are within a
jar file.  Using java.util.zip.ZipFile, I have been able to extract the
xml files as an InputStream.  But there appears to be no methods in
ZipFile to modify/update an xml file within an existing jar file with ...

What sorts of trick have you used in console-only apps to let the user
know the program is still alive without filling up screens full of
junk?
For guis, see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/progress.html

I am trying to save a string that I get from a JTextArea like this:
---------
String s = textArea.getText();
---------

I am attempting to use JavaMail to send an email from a servlet running
under Tomcat. The code compiles fine but the servlet processing stops
on an attempt to create a session instance. I'm new to Java and am
probably making a basic mistake. The code segments are shown below. The

A. what is the difference between Hashtable and HashMap and when would
you use in instead of the other. It seems to me that HashMap should
never be used for it provides same functionality as hashtable but
slower.

Background:
I have installed OpenSuse (10.0) Eval Edition on a remote headless computer,
and disabled X (so it is completely GUIless)  I then removed the keyboard,
the video card, the sound card, the CD rom, the floppy and now it is my sexy