Is there any hash function in Java, that convert a string value to a hash
code ?
Thanks :)

I have a design question.
I am writing an application that will search through the contents of
various files against a given search criteria. I envisage that there
will be different search strategies, each of which have different

hi i waanna to acccess my orkut account but wen i rite orkut.com on
url the massage""orkut is banned u fool,The administrator didnt write
this programme guess who??Muahaha""
thiis massage pop up isalways commimng any body can me help to coome

Where does this driver need to be installed?  Is it needed on the SQL
box, web server or both?
Thanks.

Is it possible to update a single file(s) in an existing war file
using Ant? I don't want to have to do a complete build because the
project is huge and I am just going to be working on a few files.
There is no build script available for the war file - it's

I am doing research on the best components to use for building a Web Java
Application that is using a database backend.
So far, this is what I have understood:
1. All my pages will be in JSP. User will enter his choices and the form

I've got 2 question:
1) I'd like to read a double value from console, so I wrote:
try{
char c = new char[100];

Is there any way for Java to detect the number of CPUs that are
available? Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() returns the number
of cores, not CPUs.

I need to open a new log file in a specific location in the code, how
can I do that?
Log file size and number of records are unknown so I cannot use this
information.

I'm a beginner in this Java.
I learnt Library functions in C from the Help file of my compiler
( Turbo C++ 3.0 )
How can I learn Java's library from the API docs?

How can I declare the policy file for Java in Eclipse 3.3 ?
Also, what is the prferable Development kit :
JDK, or JRE, and can I have some problems if using JRE instead of JDK (of
1.5.12) ?

I have this:
BeanChalker.setLastname(lastname);
Is it possible to use variables like this because I am not sure how to
set up the variable or use concatenator some way to make it work:

So, a colleague of mine recently is trying to use generics to enforce
type-correctness (good) in an interface method that takes object. He
needs a specific subtype and so we try this:
public void someMethod(Object myType)

Hello, I have a simple web application using servlets. When doGet is
called, I want to create the response by including 3 different files:
header.html, footer.html and the resource asked by the browser.
How can I do that? I tried RequestDispatcher, but it seems that only

Check out Marti Hall's examples at:
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