I am new to Java but an experienced programmer in C.
I am trying to find a simple way to read data from the keyboard in a java
program.
The java.io package seems to be the solution but I find very complicated to

I am working on an application that extends a Jpanel and draws a map to
the screen.
Here is what I have:
The JPanel is threaded and is responsible for capturing the mouse,

I wrote an applet that runs well on my machine but does not display on
other people's machines. Sometimes I get a little X box, sometimes
it's all grey.
I am running IE 6.0 and I compiled the applet using NETBEANS version

A program I have installed under windows XP has stolen the association
of jar files. I would like jar files to be opened with java.exe -jar so
that they run when I double click on them...
I've tried using windows explorer to assocaite .jar files with the

I'm new to java. I've never seen so many books that soon lead one
to total confusion. I've come to the conclusion that most
programmers can't deal with the English language.
My preference is books by example: simple programs fully explained

I am writing a program which listens on a port and when it recieves
information it sends an acknowledgement message to the sender.  I based
my code on the KnockKnockServer.java from the Sun tutorial on sockets.
My problem is that while I can receive the acknowledgement using a

    I'm using the java.util.prefs.Preferences class to store some prefs in
a platform neutral way but I can't work out how to rename or copy a
preferences node, is this possible?
Cheers

 As the subject says, is it possible? Can you access anything else
on the phone.
 I'm having real trouble getting anything to work, just get the
invalid application message. Anyway of getting anything more

I am newbee, thanks for your help.
I installed JBuilder X Enterprise...
Made the tutorial for the Hello world Midiet, all works fine on my PC.
Installed the Mime Type on IIS 2000 server

My problem is as follows: in a method that receives as parameters a Shape
object and a Graphics object,
I must draw two copies of the Shape, with an offsrt of a few pixels between
the two copies on the x axis.

How can I use, from within some servlet, an instance of some application
scope bean (declared in some jsp page <jsp:useBean id="idee"
class="some.package.SomeClass" scope="application"/>)? From which context,
which attribute?

Hello, I have a String that represents the URL to
a picture. My problem is that it could be an absolute
URL or relative to the page that contains the picture.
Before I go about to reinvent the wheel, can someone point

Suppose I create a method
private void String SomeMethod(String s)
{
       String s0;

is it possible to increment the datatyp/class InetAddress ?
or do you have to to split the String into it's int octets and increment them via a methode?
i hope there's an easy method...
thx in advance

I'm using the CeWolf taglib wrapper around the JFreeChart charting library
in my JSP pages.
Does anybody know how to set the line colors for XY time series charts?  I
can see how its done in JFreeChart - but there's no instruction on how this