java has become an important language in very short time. What are
some of the things that have made it so popular?

Here's a code snippet:
pattern = "\\b[A-Z]([A-Z0-9]|([+-_/&](?=[A-Z0-9])))+\\b";
p = Pattern.compile(pattern);
p finds a match on F1.3 . For the life of me I can't understand how the

I've generated a jar file with a nant script, put all required jars
into the lib dir.
I have this :
home/cy/trading.jar

Does anyone have a regular expression pattern that would include a test for
balanced parens of arbitrary nestedness?

how can the size of a JPanel automatically be calculated?
The panel which is scrollable in the scrollpane has always the height
which I set with setPreferredSize(Dimension). If the components on
that panel need less place it should be smaller so that the scroll

Hello, I'm having difficulties with writing Java code that unpacks and
repacks tar.gz files.  I'm really stuck and would appreciate some
help.
I've got the code running using the http://www.trustice.com/java/tar/

I am running findbugs to generate the bugs in my project. I have
updated my pom.xml (maven) for find bugs.
It works fine and it generates report with all the categories. How to
remove a category (not to generate) from it? (For example, I don't

   Where i can download the source of java VM for linux (not the
compiler)? is it able to compile a java vm to work on linux?
thanks
from Peter (cmk128@hotmail.com)

I been following the controversy caused by Bruce Eckle's recent article
posted on Java Developers Journal:
http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/333329.htm
In which he argues that the future of RIA's lies in Flash/Flex and thou he

I'm working on a LDAP client and currently I'm adding support for binary
attributes.  The userPassword attribute is really stored as an octet
string so it isn't actually binary.  Some directory servers allow for
the password to be hashed for storage so I want to support that. I ...

I have a j++ class that uses the Timezone object to format a date.
myDF.format( d )
The timezone object is still adjusting the dates to the old DST and
now that the dates are changing for 2007 what can I do to correct this

what is the difference between vb.net and c#?
Regards,

I am new to JAVA, I want to read the contents of a web page.. How can
I?
Thanks n regards
Vinayak Desai

How might one go about implementing drag-n-drop rearrangablity for a
JList?  Or does the API provide for this and I'm just not seeing it?
Thanks.