I guess overriding finalize() isn't recommended too much because
of it's adverse effect on GC performance.  But I assume that
if it's used a lot.  You need finalize() for things like guaranteeing
proper clean up of non-memory resources like file descriptors and

I want to call an extended operation of the LDAP Server, the modify
password operation (RFC 3062).
This extended operation expects an (optional) sequence of three strings.
Unfortunately, it seems that the interface of ExtendedRequest is

I have to tables (FIELD and FIELDACCESS) in our DB that share the same
primary key. There is a one-to-one relationship from FIELD to
FIELDACCESS.  I've read two accounts of how to setup the annotations
to get this relationship to work but I haven't been able to get either

Is there a way to limit how long a function runs for, similar to the
timeout property for URLConnection?
For example, the function is called getCompressedPrices().  It
occasionally fails to return anything and freezes my application.

I am working on a Recursive binary search algorithm (which probably
still needs some tweaking), but I am interested in counting the levels
of recursion encountered while searching for a particular element in a
sorted array.

Hi..
I've been searching at the Internet, and in this newsgroup about this
issue, but have not been able to find what I'm searching...
What I need is to generate a lot of random real numbers between 0 and

I have JNDI working with my Oracle 9i database using my server.xml
file in my local Tomcat 4.1.27.   Now I need to put my webapp on the
server and I wont get access or be able to touch server.xml on the
server.

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i'm going to get scjp 1.5 certification, i got some material which i
already start prepared, but i heard that material from test king is
more effective. do any one have it.

I have problem with the sending pictures that when im send it to some
body not appeares to them at all in the sending messages only the
words can be appear
thanks

I'm having a really frustrating problem with displaying images: the
problem is that when I created a GUI (using swing) the images doesn't
appears until I made the slightest change to the size of the window.
For the image, I'm using a JLabel with the setIcon() method.

In a BufferedImage of the type BYTE_INDEXED, what number corresponds
to the color red?
Thank you,
-Paul Klemstne

I saw some code go by today that was;
Writer fw = new FileWriter(--- // since ... confuses some people
I know we had a discussion the other day about;
List list = new ArrayList();

I have installed Eclipse on my machine, and I want a GUI editor. So I looked
on the web, and found Visual Editor. So I downloaded it, and unzipped the
files in the Eclipse directory. The files are correctly located in the
Eclipse/Feature and Eclipse/PLugins directory.

Is there a simple way to use a String which contains
a text description of a static String object to access its contents?
e.g. say s1 =getS1Value() could be "ClassA.x1" or "ClassA.x2","ClassB.x3"
etc where we know that x1,x2, etc are all static Sting's.