These "discussions" are really getting irritating - offtopic in a Java
newsgroup.
Arguing with Paul/Twisted/Nebulous/Twerpinator/Bbound/whatever name he
decides to use today is obviously a pointless venture, as past threads

I am a VB coder and I want to learn JAVA.  How do I get started?

can I use tomcat5.5 along with jdk1.6?
Or jdk1.5 will be better.

I've seen a lot of discussion about source code compatibility between
JDK versions. That all seems straight forward. I also know that, if
source code written to the 1.4 standard is compiled is with the JDK 1.5
compiler the result can't be run in a 1.4 JVM.

My buddy and I were talking about whether it is better to use abstract
or final on a class with the following "attributes":
1.  The class only contains static methods - hence there is no reason
for instantiating an object.

I need a mechanism to protect our application (web based using JSF) to
make sure that it cannot be run outside our company.
So even if somebody take the source and deployed do other server, he/
she cannot run it unless he/she know the "key".

I have a servlet that loads images, which are usually big. I want
to show the message "loading image" when retrieving the image,
and automatically shows the image once it is done. Any suggestions
here?

suppose I wanted to make availble on the WWW a facility to do some rather
floating-point-calculation-intensive stuff.
I can do that in PHP, but then all work must be done on the hosters'
computer and  PHP is SLOOOOOW.

I'd like to make a macro or binding so when I hit CTRL+ENTER it should
place a ; then go to new line
There is a section in the preferences that says:
Automatically insert at correct position

The boot.ini file on a Windows XP computer sets booting options.  If
you could change these without even Windows noticing, several thousand
users risk the change of having their computer settings changed.  I
thought about this after a Java programming class but really have not

An open challenge for the newsgroup at large, while I'm thinking about
this:
I'm trying to use JMock to create a mock instance of a generic
interface (EventDispatcher<T>).  This is, quite obviously, the eight-

I am trying to install Eclipse EE IDE on my Windows XP.
After I download and extract Eclpse and click on the install icon it
shows a long pop up message:
jvm terminated. Exit code = -1

hi frnds i need to post my user id & pwd to yahoo login thrugh java
application .........
help me for this

I have a need for an installation tool that will work for Winblows 95
through Vista, plus MacOS X and earlier. I was originally planning to
use Java Webstart, but a good number of the machines that this app
will be installed on will have no existing JRE and no internet

I am struggling to upgrade javmail to 1.4.x under J2EE 1.4 setup (J2EE
1.3 ships with javmail 1.3.x)
I have an email message that has encoded word in attachment filename
Under javamail 1.4 one can set the system property (w/o modifying the