I have a requirement to display pdf file in java gui. Actually my
objective is to diplay the PDF file and print it. Since this PDF is
generated using java code..I was thinking it would be better if my java
application itself can display it rather then PDF viewer. Any pointers?

I am writing a little program that reads some data from files. I'd like to
show, in a separate window (like many programs), a progress bar. The
problem is that the main window is blocked when I show() the JDialog
window.

ok, I have 5 or so files which need to be played one after another, pretty
much immediately after another such that it sounds like theyre kinda linked
so to speak(I cant make one big file as the order they come in differs on
runtime)

     This is a basic java program to create a frame in java that I
wrote and is called from another class called from myUserInterface.
public class Parent {
    JFrame myMainFrame = new JFrame();

Hi!,
I've seen aplications made with java that let you have a panel , with object
inside it that are not attached to any layout manager and can exist in any
position on the panel. (Like Jude's uml class diagram ) How do I do a free

anybody try to build a dynamic JTable using XML ?
For example:
My XML could be build with:
1- DATA: hot to get data table, for example specifing a SQL query

I'm quite possibly overlooking something - working dreadfully long hours
doesn't help ;-)
Can I prevent the user from navigating to other directories, the parent
directory in particular?

I'm working on a CGI application that teaches foreign languages by
having the student fill in a missing word. A sample of the HTML form,
for Spanish, is here:  http://www.rawbw.com/~rem/essamp.html
In that case the missing word doesn't use any non-ASCII characters, so

I set my IE browser (corporate edict to use IE...ugh)
to use the 9/30 FCS release of 5.0
Whenever I visit a page with an applet, the browser
crashes.

I am sure I've done this before but I can't find it... and searching JList
and ListModel + subclasses, I can't seem to find the answer. Can we get a
JList (or its model) to automatically sort added items alphabetically? Hell,
I couldn't even find a method in ArrayList, Collection ...

I have a routine that reads from a URL and gathers an image, then calls
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(imagedata) and returns that image
to the caller. This is the routine:
   public Image getUncachedImage(URL this_url)

This is my solution to the question:
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"How do I debug just where a DefaultMutableObject is having it's

Is anyone here interested in helping create Swing components? I have an
open source project at http://jeppers.sf.net and
http://sf.net/projects/jeppers . I have not worked on it for some time
now due to lack of interest. The main component JGrid still needs some

I am looking to package a java / swing / mysql application so that it
can be installed primarily on Window based systems. I googled for "java
mysql installer" and came up with a large number of products, gpl'd or
commercial; its hard to know where to start. In addition, I am not ...

I want to develop a gui to my existing application using swing. I am
new to swing. I have designed some menus in the swing. Now i need to
change the screen contents to be displayed to the user based on the
menu item selected. But i am not able to figure out how it is to be