I have a TreeMap with the keys being numbers stored as Strings.  I have
made it sorted it, however it sorts it as 1, 10, 11,  etc and not 1, 2,
3.  What is the simplest way to sort it be arranged as 1, 2, 3.
Thanks in advance.

i am running a jar using
java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -jar start.jar
i then run Jconsole and it doesnt recognize this process. I also tried
to run jconsole with the pid and this is the error i got

If you want to generate a pie chart in a web page,just download a copy
FreeWebPieChart4J v1.0
from http://www.javaresources.biz/software.jsp.
It's very easy to use.supports 3D.

I'm trying to run a standalone application on solaris machine
,encountered the following problem.
How to go about it.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to

Running Apache-Tomcat 5.5.15 on a Win2K3 server using the startup.bat
and shutdown.bat scripts supplied with the ZIP distribution of Tomcat.
We are using this because it seems many of the JAVA_OPTS parameters
that can be set in the Java tab of the service control mechanism for

I'd love to see the ratio of male programmers to female programmers if
anyone has any info on this.
I just think life would be so much easier if there were more female Java
Programmers in the world.

Hi, I want to use a JLabel but I want it to be shown in several lines.
Otherwise the JDialog is very very wide when the text is long.
How can I do that?

How do I do this for an applet? Do I have to create a window the size
of the entire screen? But then doesn't the applet lose focus? Any help
would be appreciated.
Thanks,

have a varaiable of type double. When I output using system.out.print,
I want to do following:
1. Output should not be in Exponent format, i.e., 1000000000E07
2. I want only a fixed no of  decimal numbers i.e., 23.456   27.555

Here's a EJB newbie question:
I have a servlet that uses JNI.
I have an EJB application that needs the result of executing the
servlet (which is a string value)

Patrician Shanahan is the person in the newsgroups I respect above all
others.
Not only has she what seems to me a oracular ability to divine the
meaning of the Java Language Spec, she always seems to settle

If the language X can make Java extinct, then how it would look like?

I want some simple info
1. Say for apps of the likes  PeopleSoft do they provide Java API or it
is third party that provides the API
2. can we have API to extract critical or rather dynamic info from

I would just like to give a public thank you to Oliver. He has time
and time again done a extraordinary amount of background work to help
someone with a problem. His answers are detailed, well written and
usually very entertaining to boot.

We are researching on usage of velocity at our place....we havesetup
velocity with templates being loaded from databases, setup for using
the macros etc.
If the 'rendered' content has VTL code in it, I am curious, as to