I recently came across a book written by Jeff Langr called "Essential
Java Style" which was published in 2000.
What I am wondering is, if anybody who has read the book would say that
the contents of the book is still relevant with jdk 1.5.

Sun is offering some impressive prizes for those who submit JRE 1.6 bugs
from Jan 31 through March 31, 2006:
https://mustang.dev.java.net/regchal/
One more reason to stamp out bugs.

Do errors that are printed with System.err.println() get logged
somewhere when a deployed application is running?  If so, where can I
find that log file?
Thanks!

Hey, we are starting out first forum contest:
http://www.wizardsolutionsusa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2621#post2621
We need people to vote on what they would like to do, and then, of
course, we need some people to participate.   If you are interested,

I'm having alot of trouble getting a Java app on a WindowsXP box to
talk to a Java app on a RedHat Linux 9.0 box. It seems like it should
be trivial but it's not working. My RedHat Linux box has 3 NIC cards in
it, as does my WinXP box. I am attempting to hook 2 of the NIC cards

VARIANT contains unsigned char*. Pls tell me how to convert it to
jbyteArray?
jbyteArray _byte_array;
VARIANT _tmpval;

Any idea J2ME supported Datagram, TCP/IP, HTTP protocols, which one is
the one that Google  local for moblile application uses?
I am trying to decide a protocal for my app, but kind stuck because of
the lack of info with most recent supporting situation for the TCP/IP

I'm sure that this is a subject that has been covered elsewhere, but
I'm trying to get a J2ME application to connect to my server via HTTP
(and HTTPS) and have the following questions:
The application only works with GPRS, not GSM (CSD).  This severely

I am somewhat curious about the following compile time error:
incompatible types for ?: neither is a subtype of the other
which I am getting in the following situation. Consider:
FooA fooA = new FooA(); // FooA is a subclass of Foo

Folks,
Wondering what "best practices" are for packaging form of a Java SDK...
I was thinking about including a jar file and javadoc yielding something
approximately like this:

We've hit something of a stumbling block with Hecl
(http://www.hecl.org), and it's proving tricky. J2ME doesn't necessarily
have floating point. And since we'd like Hecl to run in as many places
as possible, this necessitates that the J2ME and J2SE versions contain

Please tell me how to convert xml from servlet to read data in
resultset in applet.

i was wondering how to put an array of ints into an Object.
session.setAttribute(String,Object);
how can i make it so that i can retrieve whats in the attribute into an
array of ints.

I have looked in the existing posts to try to find the solution to
this, but cannot find an answer...
I want to be able to create a random number within a certain range,
that may be partially or entirely negative, i.e. between 17 and 25, -17

I am starting a new application, it needs to use db such as access or
msde.  I know I can do this easily in c# or Java but my question is can
I distribute  a package as easy if it is created with java and say derby
db as I can with windows based.  It needs to be click to install ...