hey guys, I'm trying to print a simple figure as shown in figure (C):
     (A) (B) (C) (D)
     * ********** ********** *
     ** ********* ********* **

Hiya everyone,
Java can be made to use a socks proxy like this:
java -DsocksProxyHost=YOUR.SOCKS.PROXY -DsocksProxyPort=YOURSOCKSPORT
However, what if I want to use a specific username and password for this

Does anyone know of a quick way to BACKUP a RandomAccessFile.
Is there a file.copy(fromLocation,toLocation) method out there ?
The file is approx 2MB in size.
Hope somebody can help

Hello;
I am iterating through an arraylist from the back to the front.
During this cycle, is it safe to add elements to the end of the list? I'm
getting a concurrent modification error and I'm wondering if there isn't a

           For sure Ifind theese jar things are intricated.
pw = new PrintWriter ( new
FileWriter(MusicCatalog.class.getResourceAsStream("catalog.txt") , true));
                                                       JPD

I have the following Server thread:
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

I am a new Java student and would appreciate a little help.
What I need is to be able to validate the period as the fourth from
the last character in an email address and return focus if the address
is invalid. The best I have been able to do is a good address on the

I need to convert a string of numbers into a byte array and add a
number (offset) to it.  At the moment the code I'm using is
public byte unencode(String s){
        byte[] b;

To reduce the lines of codes within the Main JPanel class, I define another
class ABCJPanel which extends the JPanel class and add it to JTabbedPane
instance:
class MainPanel extends JPanel

I am having an awful time trying to get an ArrayList to work the way
it seems to be in the manual that I have.  In the following the
ArrayList seems to be reset everytime you enter the loop where the
AL.add occurs.  Please help me with some pointers. I have a much more

What is an efficient algorithm to get all permutations of a string?
Thanks.

I'm writing an app using servlets, jsp, tomcat and mysql.
i'd like to put it all on a CD - for demos.
is it just a matter of copying the JRE, tomcat and database
driver / database structure, and any relevant .jars ?

Sorry for duplicate post, the previous post has messed up the image of
*s.
     So what is wrong with my code ?
     (C)

Sorry, my posts are not descriptive I guess..
What I am trying to do is to get the histogram below.  But the code
does not produce that.  Please let me know how can I fix it so I can achieve
the figure below.

Hi to all
I have to align on the right side of the JTextArea some text, i try to do it
but i had no success.
I have to use expressly JTextArea, 'couse it has append method.