I am new to the world of JAVA. To begin with thanks to all
for having this Group.
        I am writing a shell script which installs jdk1.5 on my linux
machine. I am unable to find a rpm or bin file which installs in silent

I am working on JBuilder 2005.
I would like to display some kind of a notification message rising
smoothly from the system tray area as a certain operation is ended.
Many AV programs use it for example as a virus is being detected.

hello world!!!am facing a minoer problem in java,since am new in with
thaa\t subject!can you please tell me how to create a procedure?

Is there any way to increase the amount of heap memory available to the
JVM? I'm getting some OutOfMemoryErrors that I'd like to avoid.
Thanks.

I've been asked to write an app were the user can slow down or speed up
video and even reverse it. Only video is required, no audio.
I've done a test with a Quicktime movie and using setRate(). It didn't
work, though, as the rate always stays at 1.0 no matter what I set.

I am trying to create tooltips in Arabic. Though the Arabic characters
are displayed correctly and they read from right to left, I am not able
to set the alignment for the tooltip as right justified. Hence, the
right-to-left Arabic text is left justified and this looks weird. Does

There is supposed to be a way you can avoid the cast from clone.
What is the feature called and how do you use it.
There is apparently more to it that just saying
public Footprint clone()

package myenum;
import myenum.MyEnum.*
import java.io.*;
class MyClass{

testing posting

In older versions of Java, the colours had lower case names such as
Color.white. Since these are static final constants, Sun later gave
them proper upper case names such as Color.WHITE. However, beware of
using the upper case names it you want to target earlier versions.

Just want to know what is the best way for this course coding task. :-)
Task: to split a big file into many files by its columns. Each
resulting file consists one column of the original big file.
The original file can be as large as Gbytes (so that we can not hold it

Someone is compiling my software with 1.5, and it's giving them warnings
about unparameterized usage of Vector.
Can someone point me at the docs explaining this?
For big, extra bonus points... the real question:  this system (Hecl, at

I asked this before but I think I did not ask the question completely.
I need to run 2 version of java JVM/JDKs , 1.4.x and 1.5 on the same XP
machine but have different programs running using the different JVMs/JDK
compiles.  Is this do able and any know issues.  I know on ...

if instance variable get initialize after assigning some values or
after constructor then when does static variable get initialize
public class A{
private int a;

I have created a graphics2d object, and what I would like to do is
shrink it to half its size.
I tried using graphics2d.scale(.5,.5), but it just makes the object
disapear from the jpanel...