I am using the Jakarta Commons Digester andI need to read an XML block.
E.g. From the following XML
<address-book>
 <person id="1" category="acquaintance">

I had a idea today.
I wanted to know what are the top most frequently used functions in the
emacs lisp language. I thought i can write a quick script that go thru
all the elisp library locations and get a word-frequency report i want.

If the explorer don't support cookie or turn it off, and I don't want
to use URL rewriting, cos there is jsessionid behind the url.
Is there some way else to manage session?
thx advance!

my goal in my code is to save the form1 in a text file ;but when you
run this code on your computers the button of the "save as file"
doesn't respond on clicking and show me the saveDialog window. by the
way,I donot have compile error

I am attempting to clear a jList in NetBeans and add new items.
However, I get compile errors on all this. Let me know what a good way
to do this would be.
How can I add items if no add function is provided? I am confused. I

  I've just tried to test a web application with HTTPUnit but seem to
have encountered an obstacle I can't overcome.
  The webpage relies strongly on JavaScript (well, which one doesn't
nowadays?), for example by calling JavaScript functions instead of

  I am trying to insert my file content to the DB, i am trying to
insert 1000 files, but when inserting some of the file, i got an
exception, why?
com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data truncated for

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
comweb   20692  0.0  0.0  5860 1240 ?        S    15:23   0:00 sshd:
comweb@pts/2
comweb   20693  0.0  0.0  4056 1756 pts/2    S    15:23   0:00  \_ -bash

I want to know in concurrency perspective, what's the differences
between thread and task? I read the book and it says task is a thread
of execution. Does it mean task is a thread? A thread is a task?
please advice. thanks..

Hi friends,
            Can anyone tell me how i can Broadcast  a  message in LAN
Network through Java network liabrary classes.

I need to restart a Java Thread in my application. what would be the
safe way of doing this.
Thanks,

I have a huge class, which has about 30 class variables. And the class
has many methods. Each method doesn't need all the 30 class variables,
only need a subset of them. In another word, say the 30 class variables
can be grouped into 6 groups (say group A, group B, .., group F).

I have to read a text file with fixed length record. The file can be in
2 formats. The first one has linefeed terminator for each record. The
second format does NOT have a linefeed.
What would be the best way of reading this text file.

Greetings all,
As mentioned in the subject, I am coding on an OS X and using Eclipse
as my IDE.  I can create the executable JAR just fine through eclipse,
but when I try and run the JAR from the command line I am getting weird

When running a program in Java 1.3 on AIX file.isFile() returns true on
af file containing special characters (that is Danish characters).
When running the program in Java.1.5 on Linux file.isFile() returns
false??