I am working on the http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jdk.html entry that
lists the major differences between the various JDK versions. What do
you consider the major features coming in 1.6?

I'm going to try to not be long-winded with this explanation,
but I don't know how good a job I'm going to do.  Suppose I
have a bean:
public class MyBean {

I have a fat client application which looks up fairly static reference
data (database table)
Example - columns to display for a search result list
I have the following code below as a snippet to cache the results while

Hello !  I've been programming in Java for about a month now and
have made much progress. Especially with Applets. So my
goal is to become a internet game programmer. You know, games
on the browser and the cellphone. In any case I've got lots of

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 enum firstEnum
 {
     ONE, TWO, THREE
 }

I'm just trying to install jUDDI within our Tomcat server, but I can't
get the database connection working. I'm getting the following error
message on "happyjuddi.jsp":
- DB connection was not aquired. (Cannot create JDBC driver of class ''

This is a bit of a distributed systems design issue question. This is
my current set-up:
Server A (Win): SQL database
Server B (Linux): computation engine (C++ that reads proprietary

I am reading a book to learn JDBC. I hope to have hands on practice. But
it seems requires database installed, etc. I do have a Oracle expression
version installed in my Window XP. But I have never used it.
Do I need to learn Oracle first? Like creating tables, etc. Then I may

I just started trying to programming midi apps. my main objective is to
write a program that takes input from a usb device then send it out as
midi. if anyone has a working code for midi output that would be very
helpful.

All,
I have a CMP 2.0 Entity bean that represents a row in a table of my DB.
I've got numerous abstract setters and getters.  However, one of the
columns in my DB is a timestamp and I want it to reflect the time -

I'm doing a uni course in the UK and one of my semesters is about
programming.  This is just going to be compilied and executed with no menu
just using command promt (javac classfile.class)
I am not that good at programming but what I need to know is in java how

I am having a problem with serialization.
I have an ArrayList called 'stocks' which contains 'stock' objects each
stock contains a 'price history' class.
I run serialization on the ArrayList by writing the stocks arraylist to

I am developing an application that supports loading plugins. It is
using the JPF framwork. The problem that I am having is that I want to
start each of the plugins within the application in different java
versions (start a JVM within another JVM). Currently, the plugins are

I need to create an Integer class with the integer value of the enum
constants. I'm not sure which enum interface I can use for this
purpose.
Should I use the following one, or is there a different way of getting