Does anyone have any recommendations for Java software/libraries they
have used or seen that are good for merging PDF documents.  I don't
care about authoring.  We're using WebLogic 8, Java 1.5, on Solaris.
I've found several things through Google, but they focus heavily on

Sorry other question whcih I forgot to ask:
Do you know how to go to the matching brace (or parenthesis, etc...)?
Or recording and replay macro (for example, if you need simple editing
done on many lines, but don't want to type for each one, you know

Can Anyone send me Parser source code for Windows Event Log in Java
Thanks in Advance
Amit

I was studying Google Open Source Project, name "Google Singleton
Detector". This project detect Singleton classes from given classes.
when I started study this project. I found one thing in code which is
not clear for me is "..." in function parameters. Code snap is below,

Recently I finished developing a Java applet that reads a file and
produces a report from the data. This applet is localized and uses the
mechanism of the ResourceBundle files. I am happy with this.
Part of the controls on the applet display area are a series of

I'm having some dificulties in converting from string to float. I get
a number format exception... This is suposed to be easy but i can't
seem to figure it out, can someone give me some help?
Here's the code:

I need to check if a String is number, like "24.48936" or "-1.54774",
not "weight", or "length". How can I do that?
I know it need regular expression. But I am not good at it. Could you
help me?

I'm working on a project which requires me to find the front-most
window on a windows computer. In addition, I will need to access
information about open applications such as itunes (which song is
playing). How would I go about doing this?

I have a large Applet I wish to use Dual/ Quad core Computers to take
advantage of all the 4/ 2 processors they have.
Will the JVM automatically gives each thread devoted to one core or
have to write something to assign different cores to different cores?

I'm working on a project that involves moving a graphic, and I am
expecting using a rectangle for it, but I can't figure out how to use
rectangle.inside, how to move the rectangle, or how to link the
rectangle and graphic. I STFW, but can't find anything that helps.

Since upgrading to 1.6 I have seen on occasion a socket disconnect that
isn't detected by the client end.  No exception is thrown and the stream
I/O stays blocked.  The host end definitely shows the connection closed.
 I can't reproduce it which is going to be a problem if I ...

Problem:
-Want to programmatically (a java program) login to a site, and
retrieve the next page.
-Site uses https and POST method.

how do i put background image in the jasper report jrxml ?
any tag/attribute  for body ?
also if i want to display alternate rows in different colours in
reports how do we achieve it ?

    I suppose it is common question, but one more time :) How I can
specify application initialization order in Tomcat? Seems like it is
alphabetical order now. Is there any way to do it in configs and
withour file-renaming (01xxx.xml, 02yyy.xml etc)?

I'm reading the source code from the book "Building Parsers with Java"
by Steve Metsker - http://www.oozinoz.com/bpwj.htm
and in the source for ArithmeticParser.java you notice two times where
he manually checks for the existence of an object before creating it.