I was wondering if the buffering of a stream is transferable.
Example:
//1.The file reader is buffered
BufferedReader fileReader = new BufferedReader(new

after many years of working as mostly an asp developer, i finally decided it
was time to try to pick up java. i've gotten about 1/4 into my 'intro to
...' book, figuring out the basics of things like applet.  as an asp
developer, i kept looking for the 'magical abilities' that java ...

I'm wondering where Swing provides the facility to color text in a text area. I
saw something about RTF in the docs, but Im not too familiar with either RTF or
how/where Swing parses it to color the text.
I would greatly appreciate an explanation of how to do something like this.

below is the JFrame class that I'm experimenting with. While doing so, I
discovered, I don't have a clue how the overridden paint() method works.
I tried several experiments to get the window to resize correctly.
the DayPlanner class is basically a fillRect();  which I included the ...

ive got an applet that uses itself as a thread (mainly to display itself)
and i want to use it to get keyboard input. the applet sleeps for 19
(milliseconds i think?) and therefore keyboard input is only collected every
19 whatever. i wanted to create a seperate thread to collect ...

I wanted to show a .tif image on a JPanel but have not been successful..
tried using ImageIcon - no success.
I am sure it is easy - need some pointers please
Scott

I am currently trying to convert a string inputted by the user, into
all lower case characters. I have discovered that my method will work
until it comes across a space in the string, at which point it stops
all together.

For some reason Im having a problem passing the value of n out of the
getEasterSundayDay() method.
If I do a return n in the getEasterSundayDay() method I get the month value
correctly.  But when use n in the switch statement it comes back a 0

To save or delete strings in a textfile which is on my HD is no
problem but I have no clue how to do it with a text file
that is on another server.
Do I need to use a URL and save in into a read/write stream?

I recently started reading the Java newsgroups on my PDA and
noticed that several people (including several of the regulars)
are not using the correct separator for their signature. The
convention is to use "-- "; 2 dashes followed  by a space. They

i've been independently learning java - my first programming language -
for only about a week. i'm primarily using sun's tutorials and then
making up little related projects for myself. today i tried to write a
simple timer application that would count up the seconds, minutes, ...

Maybe ther is another newsgroup for this....
                   One error is to much... :-)
Jean
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I'm trying to get an applet to run off a CD with appletviewer.  I want
this to be self contained so that the end user does not have to
install anything.  Is this even possible.  I've tried copying all the
files from the bin directory of my java sdk directory to the directory

I need to display a Microsoft Word document inside an applet.
The only reliable library I found for this is the OfficeBean of
OpenOffice.org. But AFAIK, this Bean is required to have access to a
local install of OpenOffice (the .dll's etc)...

We've a site which on entry prompts for the user authentication.
the user info is taken from the LDAP server and not from database.
what's happening with our system is ---on the user logout it's showing
the logout msg but