Is there any safe method which can get the right jdbc driver class name
out? I used to use "driver.class", but there maybe many XXXDriver.class
in a single jar file.
-Bruce

I want to implement SocketPair in Java. Any direction regarding same
would be great help.
By any chance can I use file-descriptor returned from C code and
initialize Java socket using the same fd??

I would like to know how you pass parameters from an applet to a frame. I
know you can pass parameters to an applet such as ­<PARAM test=Variable> in
Html and simply do a getParameter(test); from an appalet. But how do you do
this in a frame? Or can java pass paramters from an ...

Hi Professionals,
Please guide me how to run linux command(df -h > text.txt) with
director by JavaCode.
i have made code ....which run the file but we unable to write all

Hi I am trying to view an image of something in a servlet using the
Input/OutputStream classes and the methods but am encountering some
extreme problems in doing so. Can anyone/anybody please help me with
this? Thanx.

I have this document that I would like to send via HTTP Post.  However,
the receiving application expects the content data to be sent as a
parameter... and the content data can be hundreds of megabytes large.
Does there exist an HTTP Client tool that allows you to stream the post

Is there a way to do the following without using the deprecated Date
constructor Date(String)?
Calendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
Date d  = new Date("Friday, 24 March 2006");

I want to know if this is a suitable use of the state pattern.
I have a business object that moves between various states during it's
lifecycle.
The actions you can do to the object at each state are not necessarily

I'm not a java developer or a talented computer person, so I apologize
in advance if I make an idiot out of myself. ^_^; I tend to do it a
lot, afterall. I found a Japanese chatroom that I would really enjoy
talking in (a paint chat, in specific) that runs off of Java. However,

  i have an existing EJB jar that performs about 90% of the tasks that
i need, and the other 10% is to perform related tasks but was not
present in the original EJB jar.
  i wanted to reuse the original EJB and possibly extend some of its

I'm writing a simple program to prompt the user at the console and read
the line of data items entered. The data will consist of
space-separated items of type int and String like this:
1233 "some text" "more text"

We have a property file that list certain directory info.
Ex.
com.xxx.install = c:\windows\whatever
But when we do a load using java.util.Properties the property comes up as

I am doing a web app where I will have 4 different user roles and need
to have some sort of role based access control. I have a main admin user
which needs to be able to grant priveledges to all the other roles, and
each other role can grant privs to the role less than it. Also, ...

Hi...
What is the recommendation for reading CSV files?
Does anyone have any recommendation regarding a library that does the
job, instead of me parsing the file and accounting for all weird

I need to count the number of files and folders that exist under a
given root folder on aWindows. Easy to do with recursion and the
java.io.File class. A little slow however. Does anyone know of any open
source solutions ( maybe using native code )  or other cunning