Is there a "safe" way to install a second SDK on Win2K without messing up
applications that rely on the currently-installed J2SDK/JRE?
I have 1.4.2 installed, and I want to do some dev/tests with 1.5.  If I just
install 1.5, won't that mess up any Java apps that do not use ...

i have thousands of data files list where the data file absolute
location will be store in a single xml file.
i was wondering how i can obtain the relative file path, so that later
i can read all data files by using getClass().getResource(<relative

All,
  I have created two classes as part of a school project and when I
run the main application and click on one of my interface components
(a JButton) I get an NullPointerExceptionError. Basically, I used one

I am working in my lab with a National Instruments Lab-PC+ card that
acquires information from the actual lab apparatus. I have been using
C++ with this card out of (semicorporate) tradition, and because the
apparatus is documented in C++. I would really like to switch to Java,

I need to print a plain text from a variable to windows default printer
(text/generic).
I'm having problems with this as I'm not really JAVA savvy.
Please help me and I'll pay you 10 euros.

I want to produce some of these java html files with javadoc. The problem is
the applet is written with jdk 1.1.8 (so that it works in most browsers out
there) and I want to use javadoc from version 1.4.2 because of the optic. I
tried to use javadoc with parameter "-source 1.1" but ...

We have a project that we have been working on. I have completed as
much as I can complete on my own and would like to know if someone
could help me with a few things and tell me what I need to change in
my existing code. I have a link to the several other codes that my

I'm trying to read long's and String's from an ASCII file. All goes well
until it reaches the end of the file. Instead of asking for my
console-input on what to search for in the created searchtree, it
continues to read the file. So how can I test on EOF?

What is the way of getting your system's current time(as shown in the
system tray in Windows) in Java?
Thanks.

I have a java class and a second file which contains some binary data (assume a zip archive or a gif picture).
At the moment when I compile the class I would like to include this file into a variable of this class.
I think of a variable declaration like:
byte[] mybinaryfile = ...

I am new to this group and I don't know where to start.
I would like to extend the MoinMoin wiki engine with a simple table editor
applet.
The separator of the cells is a double pipe symbol ||

Could anyone please provide an example of a class (or a snippet) that
uses the beep() method using the java.awt.Toolkit class?
Thanks.

I need to know how to retrieve the name of a thread holding a lock on
my object <lock1> - if any.  This name should be retrievable from any
thread at any given time.
I can only find one method remotely related to this - the static

I've installed jdk1.4.2_04 and NetBeans under Windows 2000
Professional.Everything was working properly and suddenly when I wanted to
run the NetBeans it turned out that it can't be run.Just nothing happens
after clicking on icon of NetBeans. And reinstallation of jdk and NetBeans

Where do top level IO classes like InputStream and OutputStream
store the file pointer? I could not find any fields section in
the java api docs.
Does java uses some different method or these