What's a good laptop in the $500 to $1000 range. I will be using it as
a portable so I would want something light. Please advise. Thank you.

We write a java tool which could record runtime information, such as
thread call stacks, of java applications, and these runtime information
is printed to stdout.
Now, we write an Eclipse plugin as an UI for this java tool, launch our

Where can I find a example of J2EE patterns application.
-client-tier in Java application
-Display and modify data base via Java application.
I'd like to run this application on JBoss server.

I'm trying to write an application client/server with http protocol,
in JAVA. I need:
- client connects to the server,and after that,
- server continuously sends data to the client (as soon as they can be

The Schrage Method and its Limitations
Schrage's algorithm ("A More Portable Fortran Random Number
Generator." ACM Trans. Math. Software 5, 132-138, 1979.) allows a
multiplication with modulus calculation without overflow, given

 I am Sukumar...
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I have a question. Please give the result asap...
When I would like to connect to DB using JDBC I M getting the run time

Hi evey one
I'm using xlsjdbc to read xls file but it would not work whit me and
no error massage is showing can any one help me please
this is my code

Why does Java have a problem with:
// You cannot use "new" to allocate an array of T where T is a generic
type, e.g. <T>.
// Recall that even if it did, it would still allocate an array of

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I tried out Sams Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days, and althoug the
method of teaching is really the way I like, as I learned VB from the
same book series, this book is FILLED with errors in syntax,
definitions, and sometimes there are just plain heaps of mess.

I understand that RMI doesn't play well with the internet because it can't
work properly when either the client or the server is behind a proxy unless
tunneling is used and that tunneling is slow and prevents callbacks from
being used.  So I get it that RMI is probably not the ...

We in the process of upgrading our JBoss implementation from version
4.0.3 to 4.2.2. This also implies moving from JSTL 1.1 to JSTL 1.2 and
from Tomcat 5 to Tomcat 6.
Now some of our old JSPs don't work.

Can I change socket timeout many times after connection built ?
Can I use Socket.setSoTimeout anywhere ?
Thank you very much .

I am a scientist with a background in Fortran programming which
occasionally works in Java. I recently had the need to make some
trigonometric computations like :
    x=(pxy[0]-crpix1)*cdelt1 ;

Is there a specific String I can use to create a file such that
file.exists() will always return false?
Basically, I'm trying to avoid having to check for null all the time.
So, when I create a new project, I want to set it's starting save path