In Java.
Whenever I press : <CTRL> + something.
I want to resolve the scan code (<CTRL>, <SHIFT>, <ALT> ... etc ...)
How ?

I want to send to the keyboard a keypressed
(<Enter> pressed).
How can I do that ?
Thanks :)

Where can I find all the virtual key (<enter> or <return>) as constant
values ?
Thanks :)

is there a way to read directly from stdout of a process? I guess my
problem is that I'm using InputStreams, but I haven't found another
way.
ProcessBuilder builder = new ProcessBuilder("tail", "-f", "foo.log");

Let's say I've got two pools with LEGO blocks. Pool-1 with triangles,
Pool-2 with squares, Pool-3 with squars The kid-A (threa-A, if you
wish so) need a triangle, a circle and a square, but the second Pool
is out of resources. So kid-A waits for available resource. Kid-B need

I am trying to parse the string algoParameters to get the strings
between the delimiter | using java.util.regex.Pattern class. But I am
not able to get the characters after the letter "-".  What is the
metacharacter to represent any ascii character other than whitespaces.

I often run into this situation and wonder if there are clever ways of
handling it I have not thought of.
I have a hunk of messy code I would like to break off from a method
and make into its own small method.  I use Intellij refactoring

We have a strange problem. Our program occationally crashes after
running for several hours. Nothing is logged, and the only message
written to the console is "Aborted" - no stack trace, no exception, no
nothing. We have encapsulated the invocation in try/catch Throwable in

I have a class Obj. I created three objects o1,o2,03. Objects are equal if their id is equal. For example, o1 and o3 are equal. I tried adding these three objects to a HashSet, and when I print the size of the hashset I get "3" and not "2". Something is not right with the equals ...

How do you do the JavaDoc for methods of this form:
/**
        * get bold version of description.
        *

If the web application only has JDBC insert operation, do u need to
worry about the concurrency? Let's assume the web application is just
using JDBC for database manipulation. I'm concerned if the transaction
management mechanism is necessary.

This is a general design question.
I'd like a developer to be able to be able to write his own class that
implements one of our interfaces. The developer would then register the
class with our app which would use it. Our app would discover what

1st let me say I know very little about java, but I do understand the
basics..
Now here's my problem.  I was given a website to take over last year
that has a applet that connects to an Oracle DB.  That site was

Given this code ...
  String driver = "jdbc:myDriver:wombat";
  String id = "myLogin";
  String pw = "myPassword";

Is there a way to pass a reference of a method (method object?) to a
second method analagous to the way one could pass function pointers in
C?
I would like to be able to not have to define a new abstract class