An applet runs inside MS explorer.  It loads four images plus various other
buttons to initialize.  Each time it is re-called inside the same explorer
window new images are
loaded.  All works well for the first two loads but subsequent loading takes

I am working on a chat applet, and I would like it to show an image
next to some text received from the server. I have looked everywhere I
can think of for a similar piece of code, but I haven't succeeded yet.
I use a TextArea for inserting the text received but I don't know how

I have a general requestion regarding java heap allocation / garbage
collection.
Does the PermSize of the java heap count towards the tenured size?
e.g. if my settings are -Xms100m -XX:NewSize=60m -XX:PermSize=10m ...

When I run a compiled java file from an MS DOS window I always have to type
java in front of the program....... how can I get around this..... I'm using
JBuilder9 to write and compile my source code..........

if File.renameTo method returns true does that mean that the file is
definitely moved? Sometimes I see this method returning true, and yet the
file is not moved at all - any general ideas about where a problem could be?
Peter

In the following snippet:
.....
String item1 = "hello";
String item2 = "world";

When windows starts, as soon as I start my pc, running win2000 I get
the following error:
Java Virtual Machine Launcher Error Could not find main class. Program
will exit!

Hello NG.
I'm trying to write a tool which is able to print a PostScript documents via
the command line. The call I'm making is the following:
   String s = "copy /b " + filename + " lpt1:";

Is there any difference between {} and {;} when writing an empty catch
block?
example:
try { in.close(); } catch (IOException ignore) {}

I have 3 classes one parent class and 2 child classes both the child
classes have 1 error C:\MarkedModule.java:11: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : constructor Modules ()
location: class Modules

I typed in the first example program from Java in a Nutshell and
installed the Java SDK from Sun's website on my WinXP system.  The
code complies cleanly, but when I run it I get:
C:\home\java> java Factorial.class 4

Hi at all!!
When I use the RXTX classes with the javax.comm the program generates the
follow exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: (class:

I'm trying to make a little servlet that takes a small xml file,
passes it to a Stylizer class to transform it into, say HTML, then
output the HTML.  The problem I'm having is that however I describe
the file, I can't get the program to find it.

New to Java2D and am trying to do something I know should be relatively
simple but isn't turning out to be.
I want to draw intersecting rectangles across an arbitrary shape that can
rotate to any position around the center of the screen.  The shape can

Hi all, and thanks for reading this msg.
My problem is as follows: I have a dll with some native methods that I
want to use from my JAVA-app, but allocating too big arrays results in
"An unrecoverable stack overflow has occurred."