I had a case where Long.toString(); in my method  compiled and I
could not understand why such behavior.  Since the no-arg overload
of toString() is an instance version, the class appeared to be
using the instance version.

Sorry if I am asking a dumb question - but I am having a problem, an usual
warning is coming up when I compile my simple program.
When I compile
...\Desktop>javac edit_dist.java

I am a newbie to the NetBeans and have recently downloaded the NetBeans
5.5.
However, I am facing one problem.
For example: for calculating the lowest of a given set of numbers,

Following an advice on getting started with the very foundametal
elements of java, would one one write some simple and yet elegant code
sample using some core methods from java.lang, java.util and java.io
(optional) and java.text (optional) packages?  And if this little thing

I have modified slightly (to learn from it:) NetBeans 5.5 JsfJpa
example application and thus coused it to stop working. I get
NullPointerException. I have made following modifications:
I have modified getUser() call in UserManager class to delegate the job

Can you please help me out following issue.
If i enter file name and filepath then a worddocument with the name as
filename and that should be
craete on specified path.How can i write java code for this.

I've tried the tutorial at http://tvilda.stilius.net/java/java_ssl.php
and can't get it to work.  Is there something wrong with tutorial or am
I making a simple mistake?

I'm not sure this is the correct group to ask this but
I really have no idea where it would be appropriate.
For a (Java-backed) Webapp serving HTML pages
generated using JSP (running on Tomcat 5.5), what

I have started learning Java. I have installed Java with NetBeans 5.0. In
NetBeans I have written Hello World application which I can run from IDE
correctly. But when I tried to run it from command prompt (> java
Main.class) I receive:

We are starting a new webservices project and need some advice as to
which framework to use. We are planning on using axis. I'd appreciate
any advice on whether this is a good or bad framework to use and what
alternatives others would recommend.

I also tried connecting to the internet, a local server, but it threw
the exception written below.
I noticed the server returns error code 404.
But, I believe it should not be enough for my midlet to read the o/p

Dear all iam new for java,i have one dought that is how to set path to
tomcat and how to deploy.
  regards,
  chinni.

Forgive me; this is sort of a newbie question.  Is it possible to share in-
memory data between instances of an app?
I realize I could just write the info to disk with one instance then read
it into the other instances from the disk, but I'd like to keep it in

I have an assignment in a java course in which i need to call an applet
from a java script.
The following is my script:
<applet name="MainApplet"  id="MainApplet" code="MainApplet.class"

Hi java gurus,
I'm a java newbie.    Attempted to use JBuilder (2005) from Borland to
rebuild a jar file.   It seems that the jar file has four core classes.
 Rebuild failed.  Yes, I've captured err msg and have requested