BigDecimal bigDecimal = new BigDecimal("1.00");
BigDecimal bigDecima2 = new BigDecimal("1");
        System.out.println(bigDecimal.equals(bigDecima2));
The above gives me false.

 I have a 3rd party plugin that is normally triggered by a right-click
option on the eclipse IDE.  I'd like to be able to trigger the action
of this right-click option without opening up eclipse.  I haven't had
much plugin development experience, but it seems to me like the the

How to make application read from port every 10 s.
Is it smart to create Thread and do it with sleep or with do-while command?

Forgive the newbe level of this question.
I have define and declare a root node, jtree and model. I add nodes to the
model. The tree doesn't get updated.
Why?

Hi, folks,
Does anyone know of a, "Standard," way to document software?
Perhaps I'm a dinosaur, but I find a text description is the easiest way
to start understanding code. This text description will ideally explain

A friend and I are having a friendly competition that is causing me some
conceptual confusion. I am hoping someone can help me clarify things a
little.
We are each writing programs to read an input file and count the number of

I just had the great joy of deploying a simple webapp that uses SAAJ.
Care to guess how many jar files it needed? 24!
I suppose I might have been able to dispense with some of these, but I
honestly don't know which ones might be surplus to requirements, and I

...at least superficially. Is this because FORTH
represents the earliest, if not the first VM, and one
of the earlier interpreted languages?
Or is it because there are only so many ways

I need help finding what to download and install to do server-side image
conversion from TIFF to JPG. I want to read a TIFF file and write a separate
JPG file for each page. I updated my JRE to 1.4.2.12. Probably what I need
are a few examples that do something similar, then I can ...

I'm using the following to execute "nbtscan 192.168.0.1-255"
(http://www.inetcat.org/software/nbtscan.html)
String line;
           Process aProcess = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmdline);

i have a final year project to be completed..
im creating a mobile, location based information system. its a stand
alone application.
i need 2 find out, whether thr are any classes to wrk with the images

Before I start, I understand the implementation of getters and setters
and how to use them, I'm not asking about how, I'm asking about why.

to be needed to "preserve encapsulation" But, how is the following

Can anyone recommend a good (preferably inexpensive) GUI editor out
there for Java, similar to Visual C++, where I can create a GUI and
edit the code-behind without affecting the GUI itself (and vice versa).
I have been using JFrameBuilder - not too impressed - it seems

I have a project that was built with maven, but it depends on a bunch of
libraries that are no longer available from the specified locations.
I have all the jars that would be needed to build the project, but I
don't know how to tell maven to look in a local directory, instead of

can you give me some code  in java that can convert two or three digits
numbers into equivalent word descriptions such as 45=fourty five,
104=one hundred and four