l1,l2 are of type "long" and I need to compare them. Currently I do it by
new Long(l1).compareTo(l2)   // autoboxing
However, there should be a static method in Long.compareTo(long l1, long l2)
in order to avoid the generation of two unnecessary Long objects? The same

i have down loaded eclipse ide version 3.1.2 it in i need to include
Visual Editor Plug-in, in eclipse software update i am unable 2 update,
but i downloaded a seperate copy, it has 2 folders( featues, plugin
folder), how to  update my ecipse with this plu-in?

Can i serialize xml to object using XML Bean?
Each record stored in Oracle database as xml type and
I want to serialize this xml to java beans so that I can easily edit
this record. XML Bean is the tool to go for it?

The following code snippet is a funtion in my servlet.
public static void errorHandling(int code)
    {
        try{

I am learning Java applet. After I have written it, I found that I can
only view it by appletviewer. If I try to open it with FireFox(version
1.5) or NetScape(version 7.2), it is a blank field. (I am using
Microsoft XP OS. I am a Java programmer. I have SDK 1.5 installed.)

Im new to jsp and i am encountring this problem.....
im designing a login page....now if the login password and password are
entered and then once the user clicks submit.....the validate.jsp page
is called which validates the user entry...is its valid ill forward to

I'm having trouble really grokking the way Tomcat handles deployment of
webapps. It seems that there are two ways to define your webapps.
First, in server.xml, I can make Context elements inside of my Host
elements. There, I can specify the url path to tie into, the docBase,

I wrote a program to use activation mechanism of RMI to instantiate
remote
objects.
The program is as follow:

Unqualified element in XSD definition
For some reason, we may need to define elements in XSD to be
"unqualified".
According to the design patterns of XSD, it seems they do not recommend

Hi Experts!
I am a beginner who wants to learn Java. I did C++,VB before.
Does anyone know which websites provide very good online learning
materials?

i have two public class in a single file.it is giving compilation error
so can any one tell what is the resion behind this.
i know it will give but i dont know what is the think on this.

in my application there are several import from an external library, in
Eclipse i've added this library in Project -> Properties -> Java Build
Path -> Add External JARs.
Well, when i export as a Jar file this "jade.jar" library is not in my jar

in my application there are several import from an external library, in
Eclipse i've added this library in Project -> Properties -> Java Build
Path -> Add External JARs.
Well, when i export as a Jar file this "jade.jar" library is not in my jar

I'm reading chapter 3 of Sheng Liang's "The JNI Programmer's Guide and
Specification", and am working the "Prompt" example.  I'm working through the
examples using gcc on GNU/Linux and VC++ on MS Windows.  Here's the C code in
Sheng's book:

In my Java application, the application is sending HTTP + SOAP request
to JBoss server. My observation is that for the very first request for
obtaining OutputStream object, application takes much time. And the
subsequent requests from the application does not take time for