My team is enhancing and maintaining a very large and in some places
very old (8 yrs.)  (pre-.jsp, servlets etc.) web app. As you can
imagine, there is no coherent strategy for error handling and error
stack traces are frequently throw onto the screen for the user to see.

In my properties file i have:
file=logfile.log
When i run my source code it loads the properties file correctly but it
cant find the path of the log file.

I'm quite new to JAVA and have a question.
I coded a sample Web-Application in Java Studio Creator 2.0, Update 1,
using JSF and the sun Web-UI-Component-Library (I'm using TabSets in
here).

Why String is immutable? Is there simple explanation I can't find it?

I am using Jacob (a java-com bridge) to access MS applications thru
java enabled web app.
anybody worked on writing UTF-8 data into an .doc file thru jacob?
using macro "TypeText" from MS word no other language is able to write,

I haven't found any cases mentioned on the web or on usenet. I'd think
that Tomcat is impervious to the usual type of buffer overruns. But
there could always be something. Never say never.
So just to be safe, I'm asking if Tomcat running under Admin on my XP

Can anybody tell me how difficult it would be to embed a relational
database with a small footprint to my stanalone Java application. I
intend to distribute the app by means of Java Web Start. I'm not so
bothered about the availability of drivers and / or the programming of

I want to write a recursion function that returns the maximum among the
first n elemetns of an array, using at most "lgn" recursive calls.
here is my function:
public class Prob0405 {

I am using this segment to read a file:
String str
while ((str=in.readLine()!=eof)
but I get error because of eof (I want to detect end of file). How can

My application currently stores a user name and password using the
Preferences class. I assume this is stored somewhere in plain text,
either way it is insecure. How do I go about saving a password when it
is entered so that I don't have to ask for it later? The password is

I am reading some Java file, which I don't understand:
Class A<B> {
  B b;
  A(B b) {this.b = b;}

Please watch the following code:
(Though the constructor Date(int year, int month, int date) was
deprecated)
Note that I am creating a date object for the date 1 July 2006.

Folks,
I'm an elections observer in Pima County AZ credentialled by both the
Pima County Democratic and Libertarian parties.  I need to be able to
check the Diebold Election Systems central tabulator for illicit Java

With Tomcat/5.5.7, the example servlets are running correctly. But if I
edit the HelloWorldExample source
($catalina_home\webapps\servlets-examples\WEB-INF\classes\HelloWorldExample.java),
the HelloWorldExample servlet does not change. If I use the manager to

As in Title
links, docs, etc.
Regards
Martin