There's something i've been wondering and i'm hoping someone has an
explanation for it that goes beyond "Sun screwed up" :
The interface Map<K,V> (with generics) has these methods defined :
public V get(Object key)

I'm trying to count how many entries in a piece of text conform to the
pattern $(Some text)$ or $(Something else)$. Essentially how many
peices of text are preceded by $( and followed by )$ .I'm using a
scanner and the regex found below, but I find nothing:

Hi plz if i have a text file file1.txt contains for example:
Hi Bob ?
How are You?
I need to meet u.

I have a method that does some HTTP posting.  Inside that method are calls
that can generate MalformedURLException, ProtocolException,
UnsupportedEncodingException, as well as the more general IOException in it's
own right.  The three former exceptions are subclasses of ...

I am about to develop a J2EE application and having some trouble
choosing the frameworks, some of which I have in mind are
- Spring
- Struts

what is the value of
-8>>-1
-8<<-1
it will be like

I got bit by the NoClassDefFoundError.  Lo and behold, I figured out what the
problem was, so thankfully that's not the question here...   :-)
This occurs in a servlet.  In my doPost method, as a last resort, I was
catching (Exception e) just to make sure anything unexpected ...

 I have a code point »cp«, which I would like to insert
 into a StringBuilder-object »sb« at position 0. So:
sb.insertCodePoint( 0, cp );
 The problem is that there is no such method, and I

Is there any way to get the amount of buffer space used on a datagram
socket?  I have an application that handles incoming UDP packets and it
slows down when the incoming traffic gets pretty busy.  I would like to
figure out how many UDP packets are queued or at least how much of ...

Anyone worked with NIO (Java 1.5)?
I cannot seem to figure this one - the example from the web works as
expected, but my code doesn't, and I can't find the part which makes
the difference.

I am facing a problem for Character encoding that just made me crazy.
Our user's copies text from different sites and pasting it .
I m using jboss 3.2.3 and embedded tomcat 4.1.29 and MySql 5.0 as
backend.

Ok I have a business application which has persists its data to a
database using hibernate. What I want to know is what is the best
practice for persistence?
- Load it all into memory and then synchronize to the database.

I use javamail to read message in a public folder on a MS Exchange
server. (It's simple: instead of "Inbox" you give it "Public Folders/My
Folder".)
However, accessing some messages fails. Trying to get the subject or

what is the value of
-8>>-1
-8<<-1
it will be like

I'm running Java 5.0 using Eclipse.
This piece of code is failing within the IDE.
import java.util.*;
/**