I have a jar file with lots of *.class files but the original source code is
not available. On google I found that there are some Java decompilers
available but I am not sure which one is the best. Does anyone have some
experience with Java decompilers and if yes do you recommend ...

does anybody know a way to supress the MS-console-window
starting a external process via Runtime.exec?
Thanks
Hans Georg

It appears that from v3 onwards, sun are no longer supporting
javax.comm for XP,  and downloads are only now available for Sun and
Linux platforms. Does anyone know where I can download an older version
of javax.com, eg. 2.0, for XP? Alternatively are there any other API's

sorry for my english.
I don't have much experience on java so I don't know if what I want to
realize is possible or not.
I am trying to do a little standalone java application which reads web

i have a little problem of understanding and i am not able to get out
of it:
et voilà the snippets:
with java 1.4 i wrote:

I have a really strange problem:
I fill a Hashtable using an own Object as key:
package trainfile.dictionaries;
public class NameTimeshift {

I am relatively new to java programming and I am working on a card
project for school. I had finished and tested every method with error
in my Deck class. However, in the time it took to pick up dinner it is
now producing errors. Nothing changed, so I am clueless as to why

Ok, so I want to learn some java and I run to the library and grab "The
Complete Reference, Java 2 Fifth Edition" from Osborne, copyright 2002.
Ok, its a little old.   I get to the code for my first Java Program,
type it up in notepad and then the books wants me to do:

can you tell me if exist a method that allow me to convert an array of
byte into a string that contains all the char coded into the array of
byte?
I know the method toString of Byte class,but in my array of bytes some

 I have a jsp where I show a table. I am trying to download this jsp
like excel file. To do this I put this code in my jsp:
<%
    response.setBufferSize(65536);

 I want to write the 3 jsp codes and they will use a common variable
or array.  How can I do to use variable "name" common?
Ming
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I all,
I wrote an applet, and I get some configuration from an xml
file on the server where the applet resides.
I'd like to modify the preferences and save them in the

If two unsigned longs are summed, is there an easy and efficient way to
determine if there was an overflow? (An overflow would mean the actual
sum is 2^64 greater than what the result seemed to be.)

All,
 I've  been doing exclusively non-web java work for the past 4 years or so
(i.e. backend console-type apps) and now am getting back into the web side.
To work back into it, I pulled out a site i wrote back in 2002 on Tomcat