Does anyone know if there's a free webservice (SOAP, XML-RPC, etc) that
will return the client's current IP address?  I'm building a Google
Maps mashup and hosting it at a dynamic IP address, so I want to be
able to update the license key automatically.

Ive got a major problem with Tomcat unable to find directories or a major
FUBAR on CLASSPATH. For example, since my servlet, which needs to access a
particular jar file (a MySQL Driver), and cannot find it in WEB-INF/lib, I
have unpacked it and put the corresponding class files into ...

I keep running into a problem of how to bridge how data is saved in the
DB and how it is presented to the user, especially when sorting lists.
Say I have a table named users. it has all the usuall columns (id, name
etc.) and in addition a status, that can be 1 for active user, 2 for

Is there a way to check from a Java Application when a browser has
finished loading the contents of a url? I use the following command to
kick off Internet Explorer from my Java Application:
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32

There's a relatively new product in source code spell checking area
that should help developers keep their code and GUI spell-clean. It's
called Source Code Spell Checker by Parasite Software -
http://www.parasitesoft.com/scsc.html

I'm probably doing something stupid... but:
I've got a JFrame with borderlayout.  In the centre box, I've got a
JPanel.  If I add a mouselistener to the jframe, it works fine (but
I've got coords relative to the frame which is correct but not what I

hi all i am using WebSphere 5.1
but it is not supporting split() function of String class.
what should i do?

I'm trying to teach myself Java. I downloaded AND installed j2se, and
set the JAVA_HOME path. I installed gcj as a compiler, and it seems to
work just fine..
But that's when all my problems start.

We are going to build an application that will be deployed on a J2EE
1.4 application server (that 's the only point we are positive about)
and accessed only within the intranet.
The issue here is regarding the interface :

I'm passing a list of Externalized objects over HTTP.  On the other end
of that HTTP connection I get the ObjectInputStream, but I am having
trouble reading objects from it.
That is, on the sending side I send N objects, but on the receiving end

I know Visual Basic and few other commands in Oracle but I am having
trouble learning high level Java. Should I just read over and worry
about it later?  I understand Arrays and If statements but found for
example, " overiding and hiding methods" difficult.  It states a

Can someone please explain the exclude patterns in an ant build file
(ps: I couldn't find an explanation in Sam's Ant book)?
<copy todir="${x}/y/z" overwrite="true"  includeEmptyDirs="false"
failonerror="false">

So, I've written a JSP custom tag library to expose the GoogleMaps API,
without need to write any javascript/AJAX and without needing to know
anything about the GoogleMaps API. You can integrate the tag library
with JSTL to develop database drivern maps.

hey i need to read the values from some log files.
the format is like this :
Time    Price
082257    0.0295

Anybody knows about some JOLAP implementation?