I realize this is a long shot, but maybe somebody have seen this ...
I have been using the old Java Communication API on windows for quite
a while without problems. Until now. I have an application that
constantly send/receives something via COM1 at 9600. I am on Windows

We are looking to rework our application to use LDAP.  I am looking
for design ideas, and tutorials, websites to reference.  Some of the
issues that we would be dealing with are:
1) Our integration would have to be written independent of a specific

My ant build file is:
...
   <target name="mybin">
       <exec executable = "make" dir = "${build.dir}/mybin/src" >

New to Java, I'm looking for a general way to set up a game board as a
grid of cells and communicate with them. So far I have defined a new
class, Cell, which extends JTextField and has some extra fields like
rowNo and columnNo, then populated a JPanel with a GridLayout(3,3)

I am quite a newby with socket programing and encountered a problem:
I have a small socket server application, thet echoes the received
strings back to the client.
It works fine, but when the client stops running, the server stops

1. I have a stateless session bean(TestBean)
2. I have helper classes(TestHelper, which implements operations like
db connectivity, retrieve/update/insert data from/to db)
3. I have a model class(say, TestModel), which is a complext

Im having trouble finding a resource that discusses this topic, so I
figured I would make a post here.
I have a little program where the user can enter text and select
graphics to show within the program.  I offer the ability to save

I am trying to build my jar using the Ant facility.
I wrote build.xml and build.properties files and executed build.cmd
file.
I got the following error:

How are commercial Java softwares released by Oracle, Sun, etc?
What Java Obfuscators are used by the commercial Java products?

Hope you can help. I started work in a new company yesterday (hurray)
and the office uses Eclipse. I miss netbeans!!
Problem is, ive been wrestling all day with the thing trying to find a
plugin so it will give me a JSP editor (with predictive text would be

Can anyone help me with what is hopefully a simple ant related
question?  I think I may need to write a custom task, but what I am
trying to do seems simple and I may be overlooking a built-in
solution.

I have 2 Questions.
1. I have a applet which works slowly. If I turn it into Application.
How fast will it run. Currently it works on JVM. Will it be 10-20
times faster if the Applet is converted into application?

This program, in theory, should read words from system.in and store
each in a simple list.  Using, System.out I know for sure that the
list works fine.  It's a problem with my while loop.  It never ends.
I've heard things about using == to compare strings instead of != but

I've got fresh installation of a Tomcat 6.0.14 Binary distribution on
a W2K-system ("System 2"). Example and status pages work fine. After
"deploying" a WAR-file from a different PC ("System 1"), where it
worked fine on a second Tomcat installation, I received a

People,
I need a parser for a simple expression
it must support keywords like AND, NOT and OR and "(" and ")" constructions.
I have been looking into ANTLR and JavaCC but am really curious if