I know, I know... if the file's location is on the classpath, it
should work. Well, it doesn't. No matter what I try.
I have a simple app with a toolbar which I'm putting icons on. I have
a very simple directory structure....

I would like to create a single Database connection point that I can
use for 4 classes in my Java Web Application.
Here is my ConnectionManager Class:
public class ConnectionManager {

I picked up a book on hibernate the other day.  I've decided to stop
writing my own persistence layer every time I need one.  So I also looked
on the web and found out that Java now has the Java Persistence API.
Hmm..  A friend of mine says that the way to handle these tasks today ...

I would like to create a single Database connection point that I can
use for several of my classes in my Java Web Application.
Here is my ConnectionManager Class:
public class ConnectionManager {

I searched the forum and see lots of examples, but I'm still confused.
I'm using DOM.
Say I've got an "a.xml" file, and have two methods, updateXML() that
updates an existing record, and insertXML() that inserts into this

I cannot figure out how to do it well. I have an Object, which is
retrieved from a map. It actually is a number(double). I need to get its
value.
double value = Double.parse((String)theObj);  //this works

I am using Desktop.open(File) and on certain machines it works fine. I
am using JRE 1.6_02. Both machines are WindowsXP with the latest
updates (as of today). The appropriate extensions are mapped. When I
try to desktop.open() on a txt file it works properly on one box, but

Can some one suggest a way to monitor a directory to see a know file
named file is put in a directory using Java.
Thanks In advance.
Regards

Following my own response to someone else's comments I starting to wonder if
my own assumption that my skills are outdated is accurate? Maybe I'm just an
anomalie, i.e., the wrong person in the wrong place or such thing.

Hi to everyone. Sorry if this question has been asked before...
Is something like the code below legal? if yes, which are the
implications of making the variable i final?
for(final int i = 0; i < something; ++i) {

here is what i am trying to do.......
i am reading from one jms queue using multiple threads, using one
connection and multiple sessions (one session per thread) associated
with that......now my questions are

Since a week I have been trying to get Apache SOAP from the url:
http://ws.apache.org/soap/
But it seems to be down. Does anybody have a clue on whats happening!
Or am I looking at wrong place? I need soap.war file and need to

I have deployed a web-application on WebSphere (WAS) 6.0, which uses
struts.
Upon start-up i see the following error message in the log:
[Servlet Error]-[javax.servlet.UnavailableException: Servlet

Hi, I need to get a map entry based on a key - how can this be done
using the JSTL?
I know I could say:
<c:forEach items="${myMap }" var="entry" >

Is it possible to pass out to jsp an EnumMap and then "index" it with
the enum name?  I'm currently using a parallel map of Map<String, Size>;
for example
<img src="whatever.jpg"