I am trying to write a truncate method which will be able to
concatenate a String based on pixel width of the string rather than
the number of characters. I was trying to use the Fontmetrics object
but unfortunately its abstract and get be used with the Graphics

in my program I have two objects pointing to a common Long instance. I
want both of them being able to alter the value of the Long instance.
However, a setValue function or something similiar does not seem to be
part of the Long class. Is there any way to change the value of this

I am using apache-tomcat-6.0.10. I have set the JAVA_HOME and
CATALAINA_HOME  correctly.
When i write the URL http://localhost:8080/springapp/index.jsp on the
browser i get the following error on the browser.

Can someone please tell me what inverting a integer is?
Also what is it used for?
If you have a simple example then please let me know.
There is not much on the Internet regarding this subject.

Hello All...
I am trying to load an xml file out of a jar file. In a directory I
have 2 jar files, both have the same named xml file.
Please read the following code:

I wish to save some user data (editable via GUI) on a per user basis.
Is there any nice mechanism in Java that puts such info into an
appropriate place? If I have to do that manually, what would be a nice
place to save some small files with bothering the user? Or shall I

I am having a problem with cut/copy/paste of items in a JTree.  At
first glance, it appears that cut/copy/paste is working, but after
some inspection, it has a (serious) flaw.  Here's a step-by-step
description of the problem.

I have a jsp page that takes one parameter say: http://www.a.com/a.jsp?id=1
and use different id to generate different pages,
now I want to get the results from that and I use

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have a several PCs running WinXP SP2 and W2k SP2 latest patches.  all have AMD
or Intel chips with at least 1 gig ram.
have Java applet that at times requires ~250 meg of ram.  on some boxes it
runs in less than 1 min on other takes over 30 mins.  

how does a servlet gets instantiated by the servlet container also its
gets initialized by the object of servletConfig so how does the
servlet config object gets instantiated

The machine I'm working on is disconnected from the Internet.
Whenever I try to install a plugin using "Find and Install", it is
*extremely* slow.  Each step in the process takes about 5 minutes.  I
assume Eclipse is trying to connect to the Internet and making me wait

I wonder if you know how to solve this problem, everytime I use
Netbeans and try to invoque code completion or
do Alt+G to go to a declaration it doesnt work, I dont get a
notification but i can see this on an error indicator on the bottom

Hi, I know this is a common error, but this occurs only in some of my
programs.
I run java on windows XP SP2, jdk1.5
My sampl.java file is like this:

  For my project, I see that some people use static methods for the
web-application in DB layer.
eg:
public static List getId(){