Hi, All:
   Would you tell me where to get the offline reading java API sepc, almost
the
files are on the web site. I sometimes need to reference the API spec in

Sometimes, one wants to write code like this pseudocode:
if( final Result result = calculate() )use( result );
 This assumes that »result = calculate()« assigns the result of
 the calculation to »result«, but also that the attempt to

So, I was adding come code for a logger to my stuff and my editor
offered me a selection of loggers. Since this is my first time with
1.5 I was surprised to see that there was a built in logging mechanism
in Java5.

I am working on a Website built on JSP and Servlets . one of the features of
the site is to give user the chance to subscribe to different newsletters
under different categories.
So for example, user1 surfs to the page which displays category sport and

I have a socket which reads messages.
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(MyClient.getInputStream()));
Now I get responses from the server.

Hi, I am looking for some motivated programmers to join me in my Hobby
project.
Check out my project at:
http://code.google.com/p/jspent/

Could you please explain or refer some reading material on how to
create two dimensional array lists ? and how to access the fields with
columns and row indexes ?
Extremely appreciate your help

Lets say I want to include some 'context' parameters for database
access as follows:
<context-param>
   <param-name>DriverClassName</param-name>

The code bellow is a server code that will continuesly wait for a
vector object from the client side. There are many clients that will
be connected to the server. Must I use threads to handle the many
clients?. Is it advisable to implement threads and why?

I'm searching for a Java library implementing multidimensional
indexing mechanism (such as R-trees or others). Please, if you know
one let me know. If possible, a free to use library (non-commercial
use).

Properties file stored in WEB-INF/classes.
There are numerous ways to read properties files, but I'd like to know
what your opinions are on the best way to read from the WEB-INF/
classes directory given that I could deploy my war file to any server

I ahve a question about casting to object and interfaces. Consider the
following code:
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package Test

Is there any easy way to determine what character encoding format
(e.g., UTF-8) a text file uses?
Thanks, Alan

I'm writing some code that requires a configuration file to be edited by
the end user.  The end user may also provide classes for describing
problems to be solved by the software.  There are a number of such classes
describing problems and algorithms already provided.  I would like ...

Is there any easy way to read a file off of the classpath?  Say I have
file X that is in the root of a jar I include in my classpath.  Is
there something like a new FileInputStream("classpath:/X") ?
Thanks,