I spent August 2004 to December 2005 as a teaching assistant to the
Intro to Computer Science class here at BYU, that used Java.  One
thing we've been very careful to tell the students is that if you want
to check for equality of two objects in Java, you use the <equals()>

I Hate report engines that uses bands.
They´re for easy reports ,when you want something fancier  you need
To do things "by hand" .
In Delphi I like Nevrona Rave reports(code based).

I'm trying to allocate an IntBuffer during run-time once I know the
size I need but I can't get the following to compile. Eclipse
highlights the reason as such ...
[code]

Hello,can you tell me the form of for-statement in AST in the Java
compiler?

Does anybody have recommendation on FTP connection API other than the
one provided in the JDK?
I need more functionality than just dealing with streams.
I would like to be able to recognise directories, files, and so forth on

I am using the ResourceBundle to load properties files for i18n
I have this strcuture :
-<My Project>
    -conf

I am currently in need of some help on a java based Sudoku board. There
are a couple of questions I have.
1. How would I go about generating random boards for people to solve
rather than a select few that have already been completed and when the

I want to parse a HTML document to get all URLs of the frames in a
frameset. I get a "NullPointer Exception" in String s =
(String)attSet.getAttribute(HTML.Attribute.SRC);
Thanks a lot for you help.

How does the session object behaves when user clones browser window via
Ctrl-N? A simple test shows that the session stays the same. Is there a
way to identify a cloned window session programmatically?

Heheh... yeah i know i know, this should be an easy one... not
ive tried everything, ive looked everywhere, i cant seem to find an
answer. I saw posts that people made on loading resources that are
inside a jar and having problems... and it worked fine if the res were

I'm trying to measure the average cycle time for a loop in a thread
similar to this one:
public void run() {
   while (true){

I am working on a large-scale reporting solution. One component is to
be able to scan the network for all printers and maintain a record of
these printers. I have read many, many posts on these forums with
similar questions, most of which do not have any answers. Below is the

I consider using Eclipse RCP to develop a standalone Java application.
But I wonder if the framework is really as powerful as it promises.
If you have some experience in this area, could you please tell some
advantages and drawbacks of using Eclipse RCP framework, over developing

Hi I am currently creating a program using  JCSP,
I am using a frame and an active canvas working in parallel and I have
a simulation taking place in the frame. It all works apart from one
thing - the simulation only appears in the frame if you click on the

What are your views on the purchase?  Does it affect you?  Is this a
good sign for java programmers in general to have a Linux company buy a
java open-source company?
P.S. I decided not to post this on the advocacy group, because I wanted