I am trying to read the text of a website using a URL object and a data
stream
It works well on CNN.com for example, but doesn't work well on:
http://www.collegehumor.com:80/video:1674301

I would like to code a method to convert a particular HashMap into a sorted
array.  This is what I came up with:
public convert(final HashMap<String, Thing> things)
{

If I have Shape S and Point P.  How do I find the point on the
perimeter of S that is closest to P?

how do we know how much mewmory allocated to class

Hi, i was wondering if anybody had any idea how to go about writing
code that would take someones adress and determine the names an
adresses of their neighjbours?
Is this possible??

I have a Swing applet (possibly similar to yesterday's Rich Clients
topic) which pops up some classes that extend JFrame.  I'd like to
ensure that only one instance of a particular JFrame exists.
My brute force approach is to create a static boolean variable for each

I've a little dilemma: I'm thinking about getting certified as a SCJP,
but the new jdk is coming soon and I don't know if this will be a very
good idea. I actually don't want to get certified (buy a book to study +
pay the actual exam) to be fooled by a possibly new certification ...

The topic for my university dissertation is "Design and Build a Java
board game engine" and it is necessary for me to elicit requirements
from the games industry (i.e. anyone who would be interested in using
the completed engine for making an java-based 2D board game). SO...if

I am having trouble with some logic to change a String enetered using
BufferedReader and InputStreamReader . in the dd/mm/yyyy format.
I would like to seperate it into an int day,int month and a String
year.

Good Afternoon All,
I wanted to share a job posting from the company I recently joined
(based in Pittsburgh). It's an interesting Java-based software start-up
out of Carnegie Mellon. This is the developer posting. We also have

I need a direct solution and no theory.
I would like to package some methods in a separate .class file. I'm not
sure how to:
1. Form the methods in my class file to make them available from the

I've tried to use HttpURLConnection in order to retrieve web
pages (using InputStream) but when the content is chunked the
result is always truncated... Is it possible to solve this
problem or I've necessarily to use Socket class ?

I have a web application with applets that access the users' file
system (with permission) and upload files to a our web server.
I am looking for a trusted certificate authority that can sign the
applet, such that that applet is trusted (by default) by IE,

I have been learning and programing java, most of time I create project
for myself, have very few
chance program java in my company. Is it possible to get a java
programing job?

I am wondering how can I jump out of several layers of loops. break can
only jump out of the inner most loop.
for ( ...)  //layer 1
{