I've been programming Python for a couple of years now. Now I'm
looking to move on to either C++ or Java, but I'm not sure which.
Which one do you think will be a better transition for a Python
programmer? Which one will educate me the best?

I have a memory leak in one function, but I have no idea why it leaks.
This is the function:
protected void ProcessState_FILE_SEND(){
        byte[] data = new byte[readSize];

Just cruising around the Java API, I found the Segment class:
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/text/Segment.html>
"A segment of a character array representing a fragment of text. It
should be treated as immutable even though the array is directly

Does anyone know how to create a text box that can be edited resized and
move about an image in a JComponent using the mouse?
Also I have a modal dialog and would like to be able to click the screen
and populate a text box with the coordinates.

I made application which needs to save the report file. I got report
file from the database and i got it as ResulSet.
I found in internet library calls CSVWriter which helps me save the
raport. The problem is that i dont know how to parse it to proper

What is the most reliable way to tell if a socket is sill connected?

we have a big project. r u interested to take up small modules of the
project. Qualified and experienced hands need to join hands.

I am running netbeans and I have a rtf I want to put in the jar that
is built with my app so that I can read off it later when my program
is running.  The only problem is that I don't know how to get it into
the jar.

Is there any way, running on Linux, that you can tell whether you're running
inside KDE or Gnome?

I've recently started a new project where I've been hired as a
junior Java programmer (know Java but this is a J2EE project
involving Hibernate, Web Services and a few other stuffs). In
fact to start writing code (we use IBM RAD) of our component

I have overriden toString in one of my classes
I craft a String object there much like this:
output = "Some text.\n"
output += "Some more text.\n";

Derby was working fine.  Now it won't start when I run
startNetworkServer.  I don't get any error or anything in the log.  It
just doesn't start.  
I've tried starting it without loading any databases.  I don't even set a

I'm using PHP5 on a Netware 6 Server (Apache 2).
Now I try to connect to a database on this server, but I only have a
JDBC
driver for this database for netware.

 We are having a requirement with printing.
 In 3 page Bills, first page will printed in a preprinted stationary
where
you will pre-printed contents and from our system we need to print

One thing I just noticed was that when I deflated a file full or
random bytes it actually increased its size.  Just thought that was
kind of neat.