I am getting different results by using URLEncoder than what I expect and
what my research says should happen.  Naturally, since Java can't be wrong
(okay -- stop laughing!), I must not understand this correctly.  I'd really
like some clarification.

I am quite new to InputStream. I made a function that reads data from a
file. The function gets an InputStream passed by
public int readStudents(BufferedReader ins) {
and uses (several times)

I have a question when I write RMI program .
file direction as follow:
D:\project\
D:\project\build\

I'm calling SocketChannel.finishConnect, which is supposed to return
false unless a connection succeeds.  However, when I try to connect, I
get a "connection refused" IOException.  This makes sense, since the
server I'm trying to connect to is not up yet.  But it has the side

I have an array of items that I need to save to a file.  How do you do this?

Can any body help me how do i measure bandwidth of network using java
programming?

I need help from someone PLEASE with getting a video into a Java file! I
just now "perfected" getting audio into a Java file, but alas, I have
never been able to see a video using Java code to do it. Can anyone help
me with this?

I noticed today that a program I've written has different behavior when
one of the variables is declared as:
int outPixel[]
instead of

Im wondering how I might be able to implement an "auto update" type of
procedure. I have a server program, all packaged up in a jar file, running
on a corporate server. That server has firewall access to another server,
out on the internet, wherein I can put a new, updated version ...

I have a Process and a DataInputStream ("dis", in the code below)
hooked up to the Process's getInputStream().  When trying to read from
it, it reads just fine up to the very end.  Once there's no more data
to be found, it blocks.

There is a set of zip files available on the Web via http (also
available via ftp) for public consuption that I would like to
programmatically read directly without having to download to local
storage first.  For productivity reasons as well as reduction of

 Could anyone share their stories of improving TCP thoughput in Java
apps?  Suppose in my app, small sized message has to be communicated
between different jvms.  Things like, how to reduce the java
input/output stream buffer time, the underlying system buffering time?

Does anyone know or have any details on Ebay's implementation
architecture?  They claim "Java technology/Powered by Sun", but the
URL's are all "http://ebay.com/XXX.dll?XXX".

apologies, not really a java query, but a follow on from my last post which
was specifically java.
From the last post I get the impression that the standard method of storing
dates (in this case a "next_call_date" as part of a deal object) is:

Please help as I am starting pulling my hair out - and I really do not do it
often.
For any reason Eclipse will not build my project.
There are no errors, it creates package structure in the "default output