can anybody please point me to some sort of example or documentation
for overriding toString for (individual) enum constants. the javadoc
indicates that this should be possibly but it is not entirely clear to
me how to do so.

Here is a code fragment that is very simple... but I can't get it to
work!
public static void main(String[] args)
{

Does this program below indicate to you that there's a bug in java's do
loop. Or is it just one of those many traps that I've fallen into and
I've only got myself to blame? I was expecting the two loops would
behave much the same. Have I been bitten by the optimizer?

I'm doing some load testing and want to generate some numbers within a given
range. My problem is that I want most of the numbers to be close to the
middle, and only some at either high or low ends of the spectrum
eg if the range is 0-100, I want 70% of the numbers to be betwee 40 ...

I have a thumbnail program and was wanting to add a feature that allows
the user to crop the images in the app.  Right now the images are
previewed in as an image icon and wasn't sure it if was possible to add
the crop handles somehow.  I've seen it on a another app I thought.

I've encountered a serious problem in JBoss (because of the compatibility
issues we are still using JBoss 3.2.1). After the number of jar files
reaches a certain number (in this case 84) adding another jar crashes the
server. Some services (like Log4jService) just fail during ...

Having a TimeZone object, is there any convenient way to get its String
represnatation in the MS Windows form of "GMT +- HH:MM" .
i.e. GMT - 08:00 for TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Los_Angeles").
Thanks,

Situation: Program using lots of threads, communicating between them
with LinkedBlockingQueues.
Problem: Unbounded queue throws OutOfMemoryError. How to
anticipate/measure system capcity, and ultimately adjust queue sizes as

I, in my naivete, have thought that the classes in
java.util.concurrent.atomic were intended for situations like
class foo {
 private int bar=0;

Hi.I need to implement SNMP in a lan for my project using Java.Can
anybody help me with it by providing a little guidance.Thanks in
advance.
Regards,

Anyone knows what does JBoss GA means? The latest JBoss application
server is jboss-4.0.4.GA.

Anyone know how to initialize an array without sizing it first?
// This works - returns a list of files and directories
File dlist = new File("C:\\");
String[] files = dlist.list();

In the following code, why it prints "LOGIC: EMPTY" on the console? I
expect to see "LOGIC: NOT EMPTY" since ss is not null, and it should
pass the test <logic:notEmpty name="ss">. What I am missing here?
Please advice. Thanks!!

let's say my web app has 10 modules and I created 10 jars(one jar for
each module) instead of 1 big jar; and the JSP's are subdivided into 10
folders.  Initially, the app is deployed as one war file.  Later, when
it's time to apply a fix that affects only one of the jars and one of

Trying to run a swing application.  I need to include jar file
C:\java\lnfdir\newlnf.jar
on my class path.  Easy to do if I knew where it was.  I'm using Java
1.6 and have searched for the jar file in all the directories under not