I'm using, for the first time, the JDK1.5 Xpath API. I need to find
elements in a Hibernate-generated .hbm.xml file. These files come with
a <!DOCTYPE header mentioning a remote URL. The Xpath parser fetches
the URL from the hibernate.sourceforge site. So far so good.

int a = 5;
            System.out.println("Value is - " + ((a < 5) ? 9.9 : 9));
output: 9.0
where from 9.0 came from ?  there is 9 but NOT 9.0

Does anyone know of a cross-platform installer package?  Scanning
Google, it appears that the installer package landscape is all focused
on specific operating systems.

I am always afraid of this
public class Static
{
     static

I had interview question. She asked me if you have 2 threads and you
have class extending from the JFrame you can safely display class from
each thread or not and why? I do not know answer. I know recomendation
is to work with Swing from only main thread. Can someone explain me

I have a java programm which shall open a Browser with a certain URL
AND!!!!! if this browser window is closed from a use after a while, the
java programm should be informed about this.
The following code is what I did. I am able to open a browser OS

I just realized/found that in Java, Vector can have elements with
different types. I guess other collections are the same. See my code
below. I don't know Generics from Java 5.0. But I am really amazed that
heterogenous types of data can be put in the same place(Vector).

I'm using stateless session EJB which uses DAO class for data manipulating.
The question is should I get DB Connection object from EJB and give it for
DAO
class to be used or is it better idea that DAO class would open Connection

I wanted to pass a parameter with my .do file in struts-config.xml, but
I am not successful in that. I specifically want <action
path="/submit.do?name="smith".........>. Is there a way I can use this
or is this not allowed in struts?

Suppose I have following classes:
class Person {
...
}

I am running apps on a solaris and windows box. Where are the
configuration parameters set and how can I dump the settings.
thanks your help
john

hi..
first don't say xsl, it has some drawbacks (like being too complex) i'
was wondering if there is some infrastucture like an object model or
something like it that can generate javabean code (i have a custom xml

I have an idea how to create a simple and cheap sms-gateway which can
be used with different webservers (php, jsp, asp and so on).
Now can you tell me if this would be possible at all?
The idea is as follows:

I'm having some trouble with JMS messages.  I have the following method
to put a message to a SonicMQ queue via JMS and I want to read the response
message that comes back.  I am putting the message successfully, but the
code times out every time when trying to get the response. ...

I haven't had to consider memory or questions of speed vs. memory before,
but now I'm trying to plan out several data structures that are at the
heart of an application.  Essentially, I need a number of data tables,
imported from a database and put in a format I can easily work with ...