Hi to all !
Is it possible to get the size of RAM occupied by one or more java
objects ?
My problem is that I've a long-running thread that continue to allocate

Was wondering if somebody could help..
I have a semi-large applet that I want to show the progress of whilst it's
being loaded and need to cater for the users running the JDK 1.1 runtime.
Any samples or references?

how can you pass objects from an app to another one (one the same host)?
Are sockets and RMI the only solutions?
Is there a way to use shared memory?
TIA

Is there a quick way to set a reference count to zero manually, instead of
waiting for the GC to do it for you? I know that System.gc() will perform a
quick garbage collection which is great, but i have some objects I would
like to set reference count to zero before this happens to ...

My legacy code has a class that has a method returning an html table.
I would like to create a method that returns rows to give me more
flexability. One row each time I invoke the method. Should I implement an
Iterator interface or something similar? I don't know which 'design

I'd like to create an app in java for mobiles. But I wonder what are
possible ways for me to sell this application? It would be best if I
could sell it from my web page.
What about software pirates? What can I do, what are best ways to

When using Nokia Developer Suite (v3.0.1) to set up permissions for my
midlet, I see that I cannot find the class
javax.microedition.io.Connector.http when in "MIDlet-Permissions" I click on
the [Add] button (I mean I cannot find the class in the window that appear).

I am working on a project where we will be using Spring MVC (as opposed
to Struts). In looking at Spring MVC, it seems to have it own
validation mechanism. My question is, does Spring have the equivalent
of "built-in" validators like date, credit card, email, etc, or would

I have a design issue. I am working on making a J2EE application as
training/practice. I will have a GUI client as a that allows users to
login, register, deposit etc for a bank. At the back end I have a
database with currently 3 tables and above that 3 Entity EJBs to

I'm not sure if this should be posted here or in the C++ forums, but
I'm figuring it is more likely that there is someone else here who has
run into similar issues before.
I am using the invocation api to access my java classes from a COM

I shud giv som character/char's in the textbox
1.depend upon the key press it wil go n cal som jsp 2 get the
data(result set hav more than one line data)----from database here i
hav one doubt tht shal v cal jsp in key event functions....i'm not

Check out the following:
public class Test
{
  public static void main(String[] args)

I have a JTable with some custom editors. I set the
"terminateEditOnFocusLost" property to have editors get removed
properly when the user "leaves" the table. The problem arises when the
user is editing a cell of the table and then clicks on another cell to

In an application I have the following block of code:
=== import ===
       if ( ok.equals(cmd) )  {               // Process the selection
           String selection =

I'm in the midst of refactoring a "Peak" class, where I noticed a lot
of duplication depending on whether I was in the front half of the back
half of the peak.  I got it nicely boiled down into two private nested
classes, Before and After, which extend Half, which implements IHalf.