My question is somewhat trivial and difficult at the same time.
How should I correctly declare deprecated an abstract method?
The thing is, that if I left the method abstract, I'm forced to
implement it, so the deprecation does not have any effect.

 I have a newbie question about extending classes in Java. I have 2
files File1.java and File2.java. File1.java is the base class and
File2.java extends it.
//File2.java

hello friends
i have a query in java swing
when i execute my application i want it to be displayed in maximized
window

Hi,  I'm a 2nd year undergrad with a personal project on my agenda.
The project I've been working on is a ChatApplication under the
Client/Server Architecture, which is still in its early stages.  I will
do my best to explain my current problem.

I'd like to check if a specific process with a given pid exists. I went
through the archives of the mailing list and I found a message dated in
2001, with this piece of code :
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/bin/kill -0 " + pid);

I have a doubt regarding properties file from which I am reading some
key-values. Now I have few different keys (4-5) having same value .e.g.
key1=value1
key2=value1

Dears :
Iam a new member in this group and i want to say hi to you

I have gone through many threads on this topic, but am still clueless
about the solution of my problem.
I am using :
childNodesBuffer = currentchildelem.cloneNode(true).getChildNodes();

I jave Java 1.4.x installed on HP UNIX box. I want to build JAX-RPC
Webservices accessible using https. Do I need anythings else to develop
this type of Web Service. If yes, what is needed and where can I
download it from.

eg.
   /**
    * Returns the day of the month represented by this <tt>Date</tt>
object.

I write client application to hylafax. Hylafax can send only ps (postscript)
files (am I wrong). My program recives html files (from www application) to
send. How could I convert html file to ps?
I can use JEditorPane to convert html to image, but I don't know how save it

I started my first test using tomcat as a container for servlets / java
server pages.
Any request to the special server port (8080) is fine. But I want to use
the standard http port. The user should be able to access some pure http

I am running the following java on a Windows XP Home Ed PC
java version "1.5.0_06"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_06-b05, mixed mode, sharing)

Anyone got a neat way of removing or *not* generating everything below
'method summary' for each class/interface.
TIA,
Mike W

I would like to put some of our web pages in a password-protected directory.
If a user logs in, then he or she gets access to the directory. We have a
table of users in a database table.
I'm trying to use form-based authentication. I've googled around and read a