Sorry for the off topic post, but these groups have a wide audience, so
hopefully someone can help.
I need to find a good pitch for doing identity management. I personally
don't need to be sold on the idea, but I'd like to find a site which has

i have put an arraylist in  session in my servlet class.
session.setAttribute("list",L);
i want to use this arrayList in my JSP page to display the list items.
i want to use JSTL c:forEach for this purpose.

Know any references for how to screen scape an applet?

I need to print labels from a web application. The only solution I've
come up with is to have a java component that sends the information
that I need to print to a Windows service that does the actual
printing. I know how to write a Windows service that would, for

Ik get an error on this piece of code:
if((word.charAt(i)).equals("a"){
....
}

I think about this problem periodically and then throw my arms in the
air that it is impossible.  Yet perhaps perfection is not needed, any
more than you don't need a perfect lock on your front door to deter
most thieves.

Running Java on a Linux system (Red Hat 9), I get this error:
  Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack
  location - find_vma failed
I suspect a library file is missing or incorrect, but I can't figure

Here's a case I cannot solve:
I am trying to write a program that downloads documents from the web
via Sockets, analyzes the HTTP headers and then, if desired, writes the
document to disk, the document may be ASCII or binary.

Hi. Are there any free classes or libraries that I could use to create
mathematical expressions and then paint them to a GUI component? I
don't mind if this is done indirectly, e.g. by asking for the formula
to be rendered to an image and then painting the image onto a

i am trying to implement the user login for my web app. my java code is
talking to a postgres table which contains the usernames and passwords
(unencrypted). however i am struggling to write it. could somebody
please provide me with some help in this.

Q 1) what is the difference between webserver and the application
server.
Q 2) do the J2EE SDK provide any server to run web based application
and if yes than how to get it installed.

I want to comment out this code in java. How should  I do it.? Using
JBuilder.
/**
* bla bla bla

I'm confused by all the Java web frameworks out there.
What I want is a quick and simple route to getting a web page up with a
form, some data validation and input/output from a database.
Any suggestions for a web neophyte?  (But experienced Java programmer)

hi and happy new year !
I would like to know if there is a means of generating the ear
application.xml file with Ant.
Knowing the nested elements of task 'ear' define the list of its

How can I access to my outlook express contact into the window address
book (.wab) from a java program?