I need to select a node from an xml file like this:
<ITEM NAME="A">
 <PARAM NAME="xxx" VALUE="yyy"/>
</ITEM>

I'm looking for some guidance here.  I currently use Visual Studio 2005
and program in Visual Basic.
What I'm looking to learn is the Java language.  Specifically,
programming for J2EE and jsp implimentations.

Out of curiosity I want to ask what are the most used j2ee technologies
people are used to using in projects? There are so many of them that you
can go crazy, I am wondering if many of them are actually used or if its
just me imagining they are not. Additionally, what other ...

I have a file /temp/1/
i'm passing to my main(..) method the file as argument and then i tried
to read it i get a FileNotFoundException
If i print the filename in args[0] into a text file then i see that the

I am writing a java program to access oracle database. My understanding
is that in order to do that I have to:
1) install oracle odbc driver in the windows xp.
2) setup a data source name in windows control panel's data source

I have an array of 1001 integers. The integers are in random order, but
I know each of the integers is between 1 and 1000 (inclusive). In
addition, each number appears only once in the array, except for one
number, which occurs twice. Assume that I can access each element of

I have a Vector that I need to be static so that all instances of my
class can read it. For some reason though I cannot view it in the
Eclipse debugger and some of my other classes are not able to access
it. Can anyone let me know of anything I might obviously be doing wrong?

My group is using WebSphere 4.0.6 on Solaris.  We have tried to use a
new version of xerces and xalan in an unrelated (non-WebSphere,
non-J2EE, plain old public static void main app).  We placed the newer
versions in a directory containing various other libraries (log4j,

I`m trying to add an MouseListener to a JPanel
Here is the Code:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

Good Afternoon,
  I apologize for just jumping into your group's postings, but I was
browsing through a few of the discussions and figured it couldn't hurt
to reach out to everyone. I'm a technical recruiter based in Midtown

I have a requirement to create an app that can generate static html
webpages.  The app must be stand alone as I cannot just serve the pages
from an application server like jboss or tomcat.  My prototype is as
follows.

Is there a simple tool for XML escaping text data?

As I am aware, it is required to use equals() method(and not '==') for
equality comparision of two String objects.
But, what exactly is recommended for 'null' check?
if( stringObj == null )

There are lots of tutorials on how to use swing in your application. Are
there any tutorials on how not to use swing?
A recent bug in the JDK1.6 beta had a stack trace showed that the AWT
explicitly called some javax.swing classes. My program does not

I have a problem with the jvm. I have installed the SUN's jdk on my
ubuntu distro, but when I try to run my java application with the java
FILE command the jvm return me "Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError". When I compile the source code its