Is there any way to find out how the JVM is allocating memory?
In particular, I have a method that takes an open InputStream and an
open OutputStream as parameters and copies the contents of the
InputStream to the OutputStream. It looks something like this, with the

I've got an example program that converts positive integers into
binary. I'm having trouble understanding how the maths involved works.
Normally you work out the binary back to front but here it does it the
otherway round. Could someone please explain why this works.

   I need to connect to ftp server through a proxy which only can use
a http tunnel (no socks). Does anyone know an api to do it?
   Thanks.

I am writing an application which uses the following class to parse and
validate an xml file.
The 'filename' in the InputSource line is the file which is selected to
be opened from the JFileChooser in another class. The problem is that

et's say I have the following xml file within namspace (i am not
including it below)
<info>
     <item>

My company wishes to connect to a UDDI 3.0 registry using a Java-based
open source (prefferably LGPL licensed) framework/API
Can someone provide me information about this?
I saw that Ruddi is RGPL , and that Sun's JAXR supports UDDI 2.0 (does

I was reading about exceptions and in the book "Effective Java" it is
stated that exceptions are terribly slow, about 79 times slower than the
FAST example below. Now i tested it and I cant see any difference. I
have heard this many times, but I am not sure how much I believe it. ...

server-side apps. What MVC frameworks are popular for developing Java
desktop apps? Is there a standard?
Thanks,

This is really basic stuff but I just can't seem to get my brain to
function; a poke in the right direction would be really useful!
I'm writing a BlackJack class and I'm just putting together the game
itself. I'm sure you're all familiar with the rules, but essentially

I'm semi-virgin at this too. I'm a 43 year old college junior and am
fortunate enough to have classes to take inre Java and other things. It's
frustrating sometimes because I'm used to working on hardware, etc. but I've
been able to make A's in all of my comp sci classes because ...

My aim is to generate a thumbnail image (80x80 jpeg)
from a source image that can have a HUGE resolution (more than 3200x2000).
But all the API that i found use a unpacked memory version of the source
image

I have a 'not serializable error' on sessions in a srevr cluster
problem
(the clustered servers are sharing session data and whinge that some
of it cannot be serialized, - I have to solve this problem somehow)

I'm just learning about Java GUI but it has immediately struck me that
in the books I'm reading there is no separation between content and
display. The size of the button is embedded in the code. This
separation is encourage/stressed in web page design with the HTML

I am trying to send some XML stuff through HTTP POST using a Java HTTP
client and a Servlet, and it doesn't seem to work!
Can someone PLEASE help me?
Here is my client code:

I tried to connect jdeveloper to a sql server 2000 database using
jdbc, the connection was successful, but when i tried to make a ADF
form using this connection, it does not load any schema in the wizard
and thus I cannot load any tables on to the form.