Background:
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I have a server running in Windows 2003 that is waiting for connections
on a TCP port.

I am using the matcher and pattern classes to implement some street
address parsing.
It is a very difficult situation because of the ambiguity of the data.
I am trying to parse a) the street name eg. main, prince albert b) the

To what extent can you ignore the foreign language problem for
entering data into Java?
do the OS keyboard drivers and Unicode handle everything?
What about Hebrew, right to left.  Do the Strings read right to left

I am running a web based application. The application looks fine on an
ordinary monitor screen. but on a flat screen laptop the menu on the
right hand side gets cut off. Can anyone tell me what the problem might
be. I'm trying with an IE browser. My guess is it might be a browser

Dear All!!,
I have a problem on my java program. pls help me as i can't find error.
below is my java coding.
import java.io.*;

hi..
i'm an asp , vb6 programmer, i used asp.net in an application and now
i'm moving to java, becouse i saw something in it that dotnet doesn't
have, structure, with the web framework in hand, i don't have to think

I'm now studing for the scwcd exam 310-081 and want a test king for it.
please if any one have the test king send it to me on
m.elgamal@iv-egypt.com
best regards...

how would you produce a random decimal number in java, say 0.05663?
i can seem to produce random integers but not doubles
thanks

Is it a good practice to pass java.sql.ResultSet as a parameter?
method A(){
//creating db conn and getting resultset.
......

Suppose I have this code:
public void batchWork () throws BusinessProcessException {
   try {
       conn.setAutoCommit(false);

I probably never occurs to most people to initialise static variables
in main.  After all, they are all automatically initialised to 0 or to
the values in the declarations.
All works fine if you run your program only from the command line. But

I have a client, behind a firewall, that invokes an applet which uses the
Sun extension javax.activation in Sun's activation.jar (JavaBeans Activation
Framework Specification). My Applet is digitally signed, and installs no
problem. Additionally, the manifest for the jar for the ...

i want to have a custom tag to render tabs onto the screen. this tag
will have custom tags nested inside it which are the tabs that have to
be rendered and the tab content for each tab.
like:

I have an applet out on a server.
It loads on my home machine,  but it will not load from the server at
work.   It use to load from work,  but I recently updated it.
You can access it here:

I am new to servlets and I have a question about viewing the response
source code on my browser. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my
response headers or what.
My servlet creates a response and sends it back to the browser where it