I'm messing about with bot representations in a gui, because I've managed to
miss out doing that kind of thing. How?!
I've got a bunch of autonomous objects that have there own threads and
control there own movement.  Speed of these objects is therefore controlled

ya so I have been working with streams/sockets/files/charstreams etc
etc a lot lately *rolls eyes*.  I just found out that when you have a
BufferedReader and you call the ``readline()'' command.  It will only
read 30 string ``tokens'' (please see java api for what a token is.  In

Does anyone know of a good benchmark of HashMap, TreeMap, and maybe some
other alternatives like Trove?
I need to add items to a map, and then get them out in sorted order, and
I'm wondering if it it's faster to use a HashMap, copy to an array, and

Hai,
       In my following code, the output i obtained is: false. Whereas
my expectation for output is true. I need ur suggestions and ideas.
       The code is as follows:

My Java program reads in (from an external source) text that contains
the same sort of unicode character escape sequences as java source
code. For example, one such string might be:
    "En Espa\u00f1ol"

I have just installed SDK 1.4.2 and i am following the
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/cupojava/win32.html
tourial.
I tried installing version JDK 6 beta 2 but the javac command in

I have a portal in which a webpage is in chinese. The webpage uses
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=GB2312"> tag.
In the servelet we  use request.setCharacterEncoding(UTF-8); But we
call some parameter( getParameter()) before using this. Do you think

How could one parse multiple files within a folder and its subfolders in
search for a string, for instance? I see examples of parsing a single file.
Thanks.

I'm trying to deploy a whole directory structure from my desktop to our
unix test server using the ant <ftp> task. For some reason, empty
directories are not transfered... does someone know how to do this ?
This is the task I'm using :

I am thinking about a telecom application, which would potentially
handle millions of mobile
phones (J2ME) as clients. Of course, I need a server (J2SE), too.
The "easy" implementation uses TCP connections for the client/server

could any one please let me know how do we use POJO Technology to
expose our remote interface of EJB?
Thanks in Advance
Deepak Kumar

In implementing a network protocol, there's a text (ASCII) phase and a
binary phase. The ideal thing to use would be BufferedReader, but it
doesn't allow reading raw bytes. The next best thing (though slower)
would be DataInputStream, but its readLine() method is deprecated for

I started a new job recently for which I need to learn both beans and
taglibs (at my last job also did JSP but they didn't use beans or taglibs..)
reading up on this in oreilly (JSP, 3rd ed.) I find following beans code:
<jsp:useBean....>  etc.. but where I work they do stuff like:

I just got a new OS (XP) that didn't include a JVM or jview. I was using
jview to run my local Java applications but now have to switch to java.exe.
What a difference!! and not for the better. I have a little application that
does DSP and animation and it appears to be running ...

I have a java application named mmi.jar. There is an environment
variable, i.e. MYJAVA_HOME which is my java home path.
With Windows cmd, it can run using the following commnad line: