Is there a better way of doing this, or a way of optimizing for speed?
I just want to check that File objects are directories.  Am not sure
whether I really need to create a new File object in the process as it
seems a bit "expensive".

I'm trying to program a bord game (monopoly like). The game logic isn't
really a problem and is going well.
My problem is display : what is the best strategy to display the board
itself and player tokens ?

What would be the syntax for passing a variable value from one method
to another?..say I had this, and I know this isnt right .. still
working it out but..I want to get the value of n in getEasterSundayDay
and pass it to getEasterSundayMonth..how do I do that?...thanks

Hi, all,
What I need to do is to convert the following VB code to java. In the
VB code, the code converts the data obtained from the database into a
user-defined type (UDT) structure, copies that UDT to another UDT

i've come across the idea of using assertions with
System.out.println(), but can't get the syntax working.  think it was
in head start java, or a similar book.
something like:

We've been working on this program for the past week as a project in
our Computer Programming class, and this has the teacher stumped.
Here are the file links:
http://leaf.iconrate.net/POSTrivia.java

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 ...

Hi Im trying to display JPanels which are nested inside other panels
(which have borders via BorderFactory), which are nested inside a
scrollpane, which is nested inside a JTabbedPane, inside another panel
yada yada.

I'm trying to write a very basic card game.  I want to display the
person's hand with cards that overlap each other (as if you are
fanning your cards).  Then, i want to set it up so that if i click on
a card if will either register an action event or somehow figure out

I'm using the exec method to run a Java program. I'd like the program to use
a different process name than "java" (like tomcat, which, while Java, runs
under a process called "tomcat"). Any thoughts? Below is the current code we
use.

I have written a class that extends JFrame, and when I try to cast it
as a JFrame in a call to JFileChooser.showOpenDialog, I get the above
exception
before it gets to the method making the call. Shouldn't I be able to

Is there a way to run mobile phone games on a PC? Perhaps using
a Java program/emulator or something? Thanks.

I have a problem, I am not able to find out which day of the week it
is using the calendar class.
I am using set() function to set the date
and want to find out which day i.e mon,tue etc of the week it is .

I am trying to implement a front page to my jsp program, which asks
for an ID and password to be entered and to check if it is valid
before carrying on...
the first code I have tried to use brings up an error, the code is

Ok, I could image hundreds of different implementations of a graph network.
According to computer science graph theory a network consists of a variable number
of nodes and edges from one node to some (but not necessaryily all) other nodes with a given
weight. Before I re-invent the ...