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I can't figure out what the Directory object that you pass to the
SpellChecker constructor does.

I was wondering if there was a quick way to ensure that a filename is
a safe.
What I mean is that if I am creating a file from a string variable, I
want to ensure that the file will actually be able to be created.  So

What are the limitations of using a cast with a generic ?
How *beautiful* would it be if I could write a generic 'equals()'
method -for exple-, with the following:
public class StuffImpl extends GenericTypes<StuffImpl>

as a java rookie I'm not quite sure what java technology is suitable
for:
+ a erp/crm rich client programm, scalable (up to 50 user)
+ swt

I may be opening a can of worms and don't want to start a religious war,
but...
What features of Java do Java programmers miss when working in C#?
Other than, of course, great portability.  C# has more limited

I am trying almost the whole afternoon to find the right version
( 1.6 ) of jre or jdk. I cannot find it on the java.sun.com website.
Can someone please give me the right url for the install file?
I can find Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v 1.4.2 (J2SE), but not

//have simple class:
public class stud {
public String getData() {...}
..............

I'm about to create a simple card game and I'm not sure about what
classes should I create for the cards. I know a Card has a Rank (King,
Queen, Jack, 10....) and a Suit (Spades, Clubs, Hearts and Diamonds)
but the problem comes when I want to introduce Jokers and Tramp cards.

Hello *,
I have a network with http proxy, nothing but http and https gets out of
the intranet to the internet. And I need to make a communication from
server residing on internet running single proprietary GUI app which

I keep a local cache of objects for performance reasons and pull
objects from that cache instead of the server.  The Swing client has a
configuration to how much memory is allocated for that cache.
If those objects are modified the cache is not updated (for a number

I'm using Tomcat as a Servlet Server. Now I'm considering moving to
j2ee so I am evaluating Hibernate or using EJB 3.0
As far as I know Hibernate can work with Tomcat as a standalone
application, but EJB 3.0 requieres to drop Tomcat and add a EJB Server

When i start an server (Lets take tomcat) and i hit a url http://localhost:8080
then what exactly happen at the server end.
which process take that request and how it service that request.
This is a question asked to me in an interview.

Any one can compare EJB 3.0 and  Hibernate ?
Which is more good and powerful ?

I want to use HttpURLConnection to send a request that uses a method
that's not defined in RFC 2616 (e.g. WebDAV's PROPFIND).
HttpURLConnection doesn't allow setting the request method to anything
other than that ones in RFC 2616 (except for CONNECT), so I'd like to