I can't believe I'm stuck on this, but
DocumentBuilderFactory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace doesn't
seem to work at all, I still get the new lines as text elements :S
Any idea?

Using J2SE v1.4.2, I'd like to read and parse a remote file:
http://foo.com/file.xml
Is it possible with Java? I'd be extremely grateful if someone could
provide me any webpage showing a very simple code.

fomr javaoc of ReentrantReadWriteLock
an example:
class CachedData {
  Object data;

Hello to all Java programmers out there.
The task I am trying to do here is to serve or access files which
belong to my web application (i.e. present in the WEB-INF/xml
directory) in a servlet. I could have hardcoded the path but what I am

I'm trying to create a chainable call. so that I can do something like
myBuilder.something(createSomething()).something(createAnotherSomething()).other(createAnOther());
This isn't so hard if myBuilder is a concrete type with something()
and other() implemented in that concrete type ...

I noticed that breaking up a large array into 2 pieces results in a much
higher memory usage for my program. Example:
A program with:
float[] a = new float[32000000];

I have one servlet with init() method which initialize object of my
own class.
that's ok if I use this object from only one servlet.
but how change it - add Listener and have access to object from all

How can I restrict access to Jetty from certain IP addresses (or allow
only from specific subnet)?
Anoter issue I have is how to enable Jetty to work as http server?
Thanks,

I would like to apply
java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock
on a HashMap(or ConcurrentHashMap)
Most examples on internet applies ReadWriteLock on whole map.

This has got me stumped
jdk1.5.0_10
I can compile and run the code for RunTests and associated classes at
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/annotations.html

Currently my company use Rational Software Modeler (Eclipse).
But it is pricey, so not every developer own a copy, so we want to try
out some opensource solutions.
any recommendation?

I am using Tomcat 6.0 on Windows XP SP2.
What to do if i dont want to hard-code the database driver and server
address etc. into code.
I put it into web.xml as follows:

I am trying to send a command to windows from my java program, and I get an
error.
   The pertinent (?) part of my code follows:
public boolean action(Event evt, Object arg)

HI im ajay singh rajput,pursuing B TECH in INFORMATION technology..can
any body help me to know something abt scjp(SUN CERTIFIED JAVA
PROGRAMMER)..