I'd like to write a small applet to display astronomical images. As
customary in astronomy, for us an image is an array img(x,y) of real
values in physical units, and colour is a mere way of representing them.
We usually scale the values img(x,y) according to user choice (linear

I have read that Sun is doing something revolutionary again. It is
moving its Java to open source project.
http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/project_overview.jsp
I cannot understand several things. I hope that somebody could help me

If you have a reference to a buffered output stream, and you call
close(), will flush() automatically be called?

What is a container?
I often visit the term 'lightweight container' and 'heavyweight
container' and I 'infer' the meaning from the context. In some
contexts such as EJB literature, it means a specific container class

I've been using Rhino for a while with java 1.5.  Now having spent a
couple of hours troubleshooting why the script was converting my Long
object into a double value, I would consider changing to 1.6 to avoid
scripts messing with my data type objects.

This year's Daylight Saving Time rule is different in US. It is March
11, the second Sunday in March, instead of 1st Sunday in April. I have
written a small Java program to test if it is doing right.
<pseudo-code>

... names kevin. i am deaf and looking to learn
java. pls contaxcct me.
k

I am using   Win XP , JDK 6 . The environment variables are set as :   PATH

I have recently installed tomcat 6 - I used the Windows Service installer -
apache.tomcat.6.0.10.exe . I have not added any environment variables ...

In one of the projects that I am working on, have been sending xml
messages back n forth btw the client(swing) and the corba server. The
serialized objects(in xml representation) are rich complex types (with
nested objects within).Currently am using a homegrown java xml

I try to display in my application the options of the jvm. To verify
and eventually adapt the process.
In fact i want a code that display for example :
JVM Arguments

Can you please tell why the following code snippet gives me error
IllegalThreadStateException
n1 = new Thread(......//
n2 = new Thread(......//

I've got a problem: I want to write an application with 6 JButtons.
Clicking on each JButton should display an appriopriate image. Images
are .jpg files (1000x1000 pixels).
Now, I've got something like that:

I need to have a circular functionality.
If i construct a datastructure for size 2000.....then if i try to add
the 2001th object...it should automatically remove the first element
and adds the 2001th element to retain the size to 2000.

Hello All,
I am developing a bean. I am using JPanel and in that JPanel there is a
list box.
After user drags and drops the bean to BDK everything works perfect. After

Please could somebody help me understand what this statement is doing,
k = (k1 > s0) ? k1 : s0;
what is this statement doing?
what will k be equal to if