Hi group,
I am playing around a bit making a program of a colleague a bit more
robust, and have a question about input/output files.
I managed to make sure the input file can be given as a relative or

I've been googling for hours now and what I've found out is that there's
just no way to use the same code for handling BLOBs in Oracle and other
databases. Am I wrong?
All examples I've come across suggest that one should cast

Hi, I'm trying to build an entity class that has another class as a
field, but I don't want to generate a relationship between them.
Instead i wanted to serialize the contents of the child class as a
String to store on the database. Is it possible ?

Is the following syntactically valid?
public class Foo {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
   for( foo: ; ; ); // Note statement label

What is the behavior/performance in concurrent access environment for
the following:
SingletonClass {
   //no state. Only its own instance.

I'm getting output values for every time i run my program. But every
time that output file doesn't append the output the values. It simply
overwrites the previous contents. What should be done in order to
write the next output in a line next to the previous output.

Hi guys, it is a while I'm trying to look a way to have an optional
property in a property file that if set will override a property in
another property file (that will act thus as default value). With the
little knowledge my logic would have been: if the optional parameter

I was wondering about the right "safest" usage of the DataInput/
OutputStream functions write/readUTF.
If I communicate via Sockets and the Server sends a message in form of
a string, how can a make sure that at the time of reading the message,

I have just uploaded the first version of YAX-V,
(Yet Another) XML Validator, my latest little
project.*
It is a freeware tool that validates XML against

I'm trying to make and applet that will contact another website, on
the click of a button from a webpage. In order to do this I've created
a Signed Applet below.. Where all the work of contacting the web page
is done in the shift4 class.

I have a somewhat naive question about OO.
If you have two classes Fruit and Apple extends Fruit. You declare:
  Fruit f = new Fruit();
  Fruit a = new Apple();

 Is there anything can replace the visual editor for eclipse?
thanks
from Peter (cmk128@hotmail.com)

Hello :)
I need a little help. Im trying to get binary data from InputStream in
my servlet. But there is a little problemm. When i send values like
0x01 ... 0x9F  - everything semes to be ok but sending

I'm trying to write a simple Java client program that tries to establish a
connection with a webserver over HTTPS. The webserver requires 2-way
authentication, ie. the server authenticates itself to the server and
vice-versa. I have a client certificate in the form of a P7B file. ...

I am pleasantly to see how intuitive Eclipse is. Even thrilled.
Frankly, I expected the learning curve to be steeper (like Java's).
The one thing that bothered me is that when I double clicked on a word
(say, a variable) all the variables would also highlight (and there's