Is there a newsgroup that is dedicated to questions related to coding for
and deploying to the Tomcat server?

I want to prompt the user for his driver number and password using
JOptionPanes.  Obviously, the password is echoed as it's typed in a
JOptionPane.showInputDialog.  I know these dialog panes can be
customized pretty much however you want, but I read through the tutorial

I am trying to make a game(Applet) where by the player will log in and then
be taken to the game. I want to store the emails and passwords of the
registered players on an Oracle DB. The game will be a simple golf game and
the DB will store information based on how the player ...

I'm new to java programming and am having a problem finding what I need
to do to convert a string variable to a char variable. Help with this
would be greatly appreciated.
TIA

I must compile a program with ant, ant, then, calls the java compiler. When
I try to compile with ant I receive some errors because in the program are
used deprecated class, the compiler tell me to compile with -deprecated.
When I compile with ant this least catches the j2sdk142, ...

After many attempts, with help from this newsgroup I got my first program to
compile.  Now when I try to run it I get three error messages:
   Registry key 'Software\Javasoft\Java Runtime Environment\CurrentVersion'
has value '1.5', but '1.3' is required.

Can someone tell me what classes inner classes can access from the class
that encapsulates it?
Cheers
Andy

I am looking for a sample bit of source code for something
that is very easy to do in JavaScript, but the java is
throwing me.
If I have a web page with <img src = "theImage1.jpg" name =

Is there a way to have a method create and name an object?
If my question is not clear, what I mean is instead of this:
...
Person abc = new Person();

hopefully this group can help without all the silly responses.
Here is the situation and setup. Please take into consideration I am
not talking web java apps. The apps I am talking are fully functioning
programs, just written in java vice C or C++.

Has anyone successfully installed The Java Web Services Developer Pack v1.3
on a machine running WinXP Home? Will it even work? When I tried to install
it on my machine, the the self-installing executable I just downloaded from
java.sun.com gave me this error:

We have had a really hard time figuring out what's going on in our
application, running on JDK1.4.2_1 is client mode. Is there anyone who
can help me analyze the GC log at http://www.migdol.net/trim2.log ?
GC/Memory settings were:

i got this turtle program. and i'm trying to make it follow a track. the
turtle has got a top, left and right sensor.
there are about 8 classes in this program. they r all related. the main
method shows the turtle in an applet window.

I am using j2sdk1.4.2_03 on Windows XP to create an Applet.
I am attempting to create a simple golf game and want to draw a course and
then allow the user to select a location on the course and the ball will
move towards it. I have taken some code from an example on this website but

I'm using BlueJ as my Java editor and compiler and it keeps telling me I
have an error in this method every time I try and compile the class:
public Title findTitle(String title)
    {