I have an application which reads a JPG image and converts it to PNG format,
using the code shown below.  This is the simplest illustration I can come up
with (i.e. it's not production code!).
The problem I have is that the initial JPG image is about 1 meg, the PNG

For the game I am writing, I need to handle a collision map. This collision
map is a simple array of bits representing an image, a bit set indicating
that there is a collision for this pixel. I am wondering on how to implement
this... I need to be able to scroll this array to ...

I'm taking my second Java class right now and I'm trying to use an if/
else argument based on a user input.  The values in question all could
be integers but if I set them up as int, the program crashes when
anything other than an integer is entered.  So I tried using char.

I'm quite new to java and I have huge problems doing something as simple as reading a file (up to end-of-file).
Can anybody please tell me what I'm doing wrong/is missing? I can't figure it out.
Thanks in advance.
package end_of_file;

I'm reading a file which is sbout 3.5 GB in size. And extracting some
fields from the file.
For smaller file the program works fine but for this file , it is not
reaching the end of file and exits.

Im trying to connect to my smtp host using Java Mail.
But i'm getting error as :
javax.mail.SendFailedException: Sending failed;
 nested exception is:

Our app needs to have a central computer send a message to several other
computers, and then gather a response from each. This has got to happen
hundreds of times per second (not necessarily synchronously). Each
message is just an array of bytes, usually less than 100 bytes on ...

I've been reading up on how to update a GUI component from a Thread
and, as far as I can tell, I need to have my Thread update the GUI
component (JLabel in this case) by using a
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(Runnable) call inside the worker thread at

I am fairly new to Java, and am working on a project in which I need
to grab a still-frame from a webcam for further processing.
The code below works just fine for getting the shot taken and saved.
However, I want to change from camera setting "0" to camera setting

Im looking for a good Eclipse plugin development tutorial.
Specifically I need to develop a plugin for editing C/C++ so Im
thinking it would be derived from the CDT plugin (CDT plus a few other
bits of functionality). Anyone know of a suitable resource?

Any suggestion on the best way to track relative time (mm:ss since
something happened)? I have the Date object of the begining time and
the current Date object. However, I don't see anyway to get a diff of
the Date objects (UNIX had a timediff method). I want to display as

Can anyone suggest a good Hibernate seminar or training. (basic and
advanced)
Thanks,
Alan

JDSL is a project that was done a few years ago at Brown University.
I'm interested in using this library in a commercial product, but the
license prohibits it.  The email associated with the project has not
responded so I suspect the team has disbanded.

MaximumSize??????
MinimumSize???????
PreferredSize?????

I have a problem using XmlBean with special characters. I don't want
to convert special characters, but leave it using CDATAelement.
If I try in my code to use :
//the object Description is an object of my xsd sxhema given by