I'm using a web form to collect bits of text (comments etc). Sometimes the
users put in ' and/or " to emphasise their comments. I pull these off the
web form as a string, but it seems to fail somewhere along the way due to
these punctuation marks. Is there a recognised way of ...

Just installed the latest JSE 1.5 and SDK and tried some samples.
What does this mean?
G:\util\Java-1.5\sample\jnlp\webpad\war\app>java -jar holidays__V1.0.jar
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from

I'm attempting to use a hashmap that will be accessed from a j2ee servlet
session listener (therefore accessed from multiple threads).  I am using a
synchronized map and I am synchronizing on all accessor/mutators of the map.
Any ideas on why I am getting a ...

I'm looking for the translation betwen the color spaces, but I must be
mistaken with the methods to use,  losing the values.
Please, I need a little help of a "coloured guru".
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I've got a question about what affects the tab order of controls
in a Java app.  A user claims that the tab order changed in one of our
applications after he, admittedly, ..."pounded on the keyboard".
I'm looking througfh the code to try and figure out if this is possible,

my class extends JTable and adds a keylistener in its constructor:
    addKeyListener(new PlaylistKeyListener(this));
the keylistener does something when I press an arrow key:
        public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {

Hi im new to Java Programming, basically starting from scratch and teaching
myself. I have followed a college problem example to do during my vacation
which doesnt work and im not sure why.  I  have created 2 seperate java
files; the following 'Dice' class which compiles fine but ...

Could someone explain me what are exactly "Design Patterns"?
Is there a somewhere good tutorial about this topic?
Tobias

I'm trying to solve a problem it's giving me an headhache. I'm a
newbie in java lang. I'm developing a web spider using jericho
libraries. My classes take a url, connect to it, put all the unique
links present in the html page in a Hashtable as key, then it takes

What are the conventions on this subject?
Is it necessary or if not is it best prectice?  Why?

whilst executing the jar command using -C.  But it appears that when

I would like to parse a xml document, which is made up of several
strings. Here is the code:
SAXParserFactory saxParserFactory =
javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance();

A friend wants to set a permanent cookie
from inside a Java applet that runs
inside the browser VM. Is that possible?
Can one write a Java Applet that does this?

I have come across an instance of Tomcat install on a linux box - how do
I tell the version/release number of the Tomcat?
I do not want to start the Tomcat - startup.sh echos the Tomcat version
number on starting up.

I'm trying to sort an array of strings.  It won't compile, and I'm using
something similar to examples.  Here's what I have:
import java.util.*;
//Bunch of other stuff, including declaring a class

I have an applet where I display a confirmation dialog when the user
clicks on a link that takes them to a different page.  In mozilla it
works fine.  IE basically locks up after the dialog box is clicked.
The IE window can't seem to get focus after that.  I click on it,