I'm having some problems here with character encoding. I need to read
a file that I have no idea which character encoding it is using. Is
there a way to discover which encoding the file is using and convert it
to the character encoding that I want?

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method1:
public static int getArrayLength(String[] s){

An beginner question:
Pleas help me with this (-:
Error (the arrow points on the s in sqrt)
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When I'm in the "emacs" editor on a file in a directory, and have made
changes to that file that I haven't saved, and then open up a window
on a file in another directory that happens to be a symbolic link to
the file I had already been editing, "emacs" can tell that I've opened

Has anyone ever encountered an error message of the following form or
knows what this may mean?
Some folks are running a Java program on a Windows XP machine. They are
using JDK 1.4.

I am working on a Java project and I am interested in measuring TCP
performance over long delay links. Do you know if there is any way to
simulate delay using Sockets, keeping the TCP protocol behaviour
intact? I wrote a FilterInputStream that waits for some time and then

Is there a way to get the byte code from classes that may not be in
classpath, that could be classes created and loaded at runtime by a
script engine, etc.
Thanks

This program(JPather) is written in C++, After installtion of JDK, just
execute this program then
you JDK's path and classpath will configured properly.
Link to download the JPather1.1:

Is this a group with C, C++, Java, SQL
and many more programmes in it
if yes I am interested in it
please reply

I know, that I can't get hardware information over Java itself.
Does anyone know a good API, over which I can get informations about the
system hardware?
Greetings,

Every time I write a class that's an event source, I give it a private
list of event listeners, add/removeListener methods, etc.  What's the
better way to maintain a list of listeners?  I could use
javax.swing.event.EventListenerList, but it has significant

Hi, I'm a beginner programmer and I keep getting stuck on this one
problem:
I try to make a new node:
   TreeNode newTree = new TreeNode(someitem(),somechild());

Hello Java gurus :)
I am new to java programming. I have a problem
with Arraylist object. I wrote the program below;
import java.util.ArrayList;

I am new to java programming and seem to have got myself into a bit of
confusion with assigning and using reference variables.
Below is a snippet of code I an using for a linkedlist.
public class LinkedList

does anyone know whether is scheduled to be published or perhaps
anything related to it?
thanks