Do anyone have idea of the ODBC driver needed for a simple java
application accessing the ORACLE DB? do we need to
1. install the oracle client in local (for the ODBC driver) Or
2.the ODBC driver for oracle installed with windows will be

I've been looking into that SOA stuff since SOA could be something to
integrate various systems in my company with. So far I could only find
SOA systems that are based on web services. I earlier had to work with
web services and I'm not happy with them as performance is really poor

I think my question is best posed by the code:
class Base<Q extends Quantity>{
private int _val = 0;
public Base(int val){

In ANT I want to say: if username = somename, perform the task.
I started with this and can't go any further. I am new to ant, please,
advise.
<condition property="${user.name}">

Bear with me because I am new at this.   Is there a way for the
beginning <layout:apppage> tag to know what all of its child tags are
before the child tags are invoked?  The leftnav and rightnav tags are
optional and I need to output HTML differently in the beginning

In some source codes found on the net contains i saw import statements
like
import ij.gui.*;
import ij.process.*;

does anyone know of an open-source algorithm for "Team Scheduling"? I
want to
create a little demo of a Swing framework that I developed. In this
demo I want to

I am in the process of building out a new web 2.0 product and I need a
developer. I need this person to eventually become the Senior
Developer - CTO in my organization. The compensation for this role,
for now, will be floor level equity. Eventually, when VC money is

I've created a class with two public properties of type string
(example below).  I've created a method in my web service which
returns an array of the class.  Compiles fine, but the class
properties don't appear in the web service response, or in the wsdl.

I've been trying in vein to work this out but i simply can't find a
way of doing it.  I'm trying to compare a date stored to the current
date, but I want to find out whether or not a date is 2 days older
than the date now.  in the example below i used a String to store the

Anyone generated reports using PMD?
If you did, then pl. give me the steps/ examples to add PMD plugin to
maven.
I couldn't find proper documentation from web. Any sample pom.xml will

my question is about the thread safety of the
SelectableChannel.register() method. In my first thread I would like
to register channels (serverChannels) to a Selector instance, while a
second thread actually calls selector.select().

I have IE 7.0.5730.11 and Firefox 1.5.0.10. Both will close if I try
to go to http://screener.finance.yahoo.com/newscreener.html  and try
to click  "Launch Yahoo! Finance
Stock Screener" shortcut is javascript:wo('_blank','/fscr/us/

I am currently experimenting with policies and permissions in Java and
I am trying to generate a stack trace that will give me information
not only about the names of the methods that were called but also
about the CodeSource each method comes from and the certificates and

    In a servlet filter or servlet, how can we discard a request?
I.E. receive a given http request and simply decide to reject it
without answering the client with any response.
Thanks