We Pratham Services are a recruitment consulting company operating from
Gurgaon, India.
Presently we have following opening with one of our IBM Partner clients based
at Kuwait, who would prefer candidates from the BFSI vertical and Arabic

This code snippet will compile and run as given below:
public class TooSmartClass {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
    int weight = 10, thePrice;                         // Local

I want to create an application similar to the Visual Thesaurus but
instead of words and their synonyms, I have a database of items in my
industry and want to map all the relationships between those items and
drill down. I have been told that there is source code available for

I have an applet which Downloads some files from an FTP(S) Server.
Mostly everything works fine, but sometimes the application "stops"
for a long time (several minutes) after the "RETR filename" command.
PErhaps someone knows this problem or has an idea.

My company is switching from using a vendor DNS server to our own as
well as creating a new network.  We want to verify whether or not our
customers can "reach" our new network so we have placed some
JavaScript on the logon page of one of our applications to check for

dear gurus
i m reading XML file in the form of string.
below is the code.
private void parseDocument(String receivedMessage) {

I have the following method in a java bean class -
private boolean saveReturnPart(List<WarningMessageVO> messages)
{
 boolean ret;

What is a common way (in java world) to send specification of
interface to the customer?
Should it be jar + javadoc or java sources?
Is there any official specification that states how it should be done?

Got an X.509 certificate from Thawte.
Manipulated it as described here:
http://www.dallaway.com/acad/webstart/, so that now the CA reply is in
my "keystore.ks".

Specifically, we're using Spring 2.5 and Xerces jaxp
SAXParserFactoryImpl parser.  At some point in time last week, we
couldn't reach http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.0.1.xsd
and our system froze.

I have been reading Thinking in Java for a couple of weeks and I think Bruce
mucked up the clarity of examples with the "simpletest" library. He has this
goofy monitor object in his examples. Perhaps I will like it later...

I'm trying to use the RadUpload java-based file uploader inside of a
Ruby on Rails application, and I'm running into some problems, which I
don't think are dependent on the actual applet. In order to save users
from having to load the applet immediately at page load, I have a

I now have access to a Java enabled server and am toying
with the idea of installing a Java based CMS to wrap common
navigation, header/footer around basic HTML, in the style
of the CMS used at dev.java.net*.

I'm having all sorts of problems controlling dimensions in Swing with
LayoutManagers. (Is there an article somewhere about this?)
Here's an example. I have a custom ComboBox that narrows down the
choices depending on the input. I implement ListCellRenderer, which:

Hi all, I almost missed this news, a friend of mine was kind enough to
send me the link on Skype. So, I am putting it here in case you want
to help Firefox set the record.
Here's the link: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord