What JVMs are available for Windows XP 64 on Itanium.  We're working
with some hoemgrown engineering design apps that previously ran on
v1.3.1.
Also.  How do I check the version of the JVM?  I know that on Windows

I seem to vaguely recall some JVMs have a limit on how many strings
you can intern.  I wondered
1. what that limit was.
2. what those JVMs were.

When implementing a Singleton pattern, I sometimes consider whether to
use the classic "getInstance()" concept, or simply implement a "static
utility" class, with all static methods.  In most cases, the static
utility class fulfills all of my needs.

How can I set a toolbar vertical of horizontal?
I know I can use "toolbar = new JToolBar(JToolBar.HORIZONTAL);", but how can
I set the toolbar vertical without making a new JToolBar.
Thanks in advance,

Does anyone know how I can create a mutex to control access to a shared
resource on one computer?
Regards,
Q. Noble

I call ClassLoader.getClassLoader() and
Thread.currentThread.getContextClassLoader() but i always get the same
ClassLoader instance.
 I want to load my interfaces and abstract classes by one ClassLoader

I have a central cache that is heavily accessed. So far, I'm using a
hashmap protected by a read-write lock. With many threads, I seem to see
contention even on this lock (maybe due to Linux scheduling).
Since the cache is not too big, and rarely modified, I've changed the code

I wondered how various jvms implement instanceof.
It is needed to catch exceptions, arraystores and do casts as well as
explitcitly. I wondered what tricks they had to deal with deeply
nested classes.

I was reading this article...
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/coots97/full_papers/mulle
r/muller_html/node2.html
and I am interested in the section on "How to Improve Java Execution" :
"Java Processors", although I don't necessarily understand it yet. Is it

I would like to read system environment variables like path etc
from inside a java program without using the java -D option.
Is it possible ?
TIA

I need a tool that can show the number of instances of a spesific object,
Config() for example?
Is anybody have got info. about that kind of a tool.
Best Regards

Hi,
just wondering if anyone did some nice code which
uses the sun.reflect.ClassFileAssembler
and sun.reflect.AccessGenerator