I know nothing about programming, but need to write a simple
application with which I can enter a word to be looked up in a
dictionary, have the application look up the word in an online
dictionary, and output the results to a text file (with each entry

I've been trying to solve it myself, but I simply don't get it :(
I've got a JSlider and I need to print it's value in a tooltip that
appears at the cursor position every time mouse enters the
slider or changes its value (the tooltip should "chase" mouse

I'm trying to build a simple Tokenzier For XML:
I have the following String tat I get from the serverand want to build
a method that takes "property name" and returns it's value.
for example:

All,
I have the following Data Structure:
A HashMap that his value is a simple object or another HashMap that can
have as a value object or HashMap.

a.
let's say thread A calls wait or sleep during the execution, meanwhile
thread B calls ThreadA.interrupt();
does interrupt method blocks, waiting for A to finish wait/sleep and

I would like to capture some data on a Pocket PC from a serial port.
To capture the data I need to use this configuration:
Baud Rate:9600
Data Bits:8

I'm currently working on a project which basically uses Web Services to
control access to database (the database being MySql-if this helps). I
am pretty new to these technologies and would appreciate if anyone
could point out which of the above APIs would be better suited for my

In jsp, forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver") run successfully. When
used in JavaBean,
forName will fail. While run JavaBean class directly, it works. Why?
The following is the code.

I tried to access a lotus database from within java (Using Eclipse 3.2
as my IDE) and when I run my application with the smallest possible
sample that I could find, I always got an error telling me that the
nlsxbe.dll couldn't be found in the java library path.

I need some help ^^
While trying to dynamically load class and use it I have come across a
problem that prevents any progress.
I have a class that contains some inner classes (and I can't change

maybe somebody can help me out with this:
I have a C++ DLL which is called from a Java VM which works fine. I can
do callbacks from C++ to Java within the thread created by the VM.
I store the reference to the VM via env->GetJavaVM( &globalVM ) from

I wonder if anyone of you guys out there could help me out with this:
I want to read a file, but only want to do that when another process
that is creating it is done creating it. Say it is an (external)
process A that creates the file and my process B that reads the file. I

I/we have inherited a 'Java' web application that is written in a style
that has to be seen to believed.  We need to refactor/rewrite it!
The application is a content management system dealing with orders,
users, questionaires, products etc.  Our clients write plain html with

I was using two arrays to go through two lists of numbers in the same
format, such as below:
The numbers are always 15 numbers followed by some text.  I ONLY care
about the first 15 numbers, not the text.

Can I extend a class private or protected? In C++ you can say class
Foo: protected Bar, so the Bar members are now protected inside of Foo
and not exposed to the public.