I've followed the instructions in my textbook to write a console
application using the Swing class. My text indicates that if the first
parameter to JOptionPane.showInputDialog  is null, that the input dialog box
should appear in the center of the active window. I've created the ...

This newbie found a web site with some great examples
(http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/example-1dot4/)
but the source is in a condensed form, i.e. ...  import java.awt.*; import
java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; /* FrameDemo.java requires no other

I am a freelancer in Java/J2EE area. My core area of work has been
struts for last 3 years. I have mostly worked on large web based
applicaiton in 7 years of my IT career.
Following is my skillset

I am a newbie learning to create Applets. The following applet (I have
included the html tags) does run using either appletviewer and/or a
browser, and it uses its JOptionPane.showInputDialog and
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog correctly.

Hi, I'm trying to teach myself the basics of Java from an introductory text
book. The book makes repeated references to Sun's Java API Web site
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/
I've been there and it looks like it could probably be a very useful tool,

Using JDK 1.5 and Netbeans 4.0 my application's 'distribution' jar file
doesn't work properly. The app works perfectly when 'run' from the
Netbeans GUI, but when run from the 'dist' dir's jar file my app's GUI
appears but nothing works, at least the buttons to get data from a

I have problems using ZIP files and Java. I've been working on a Java
application that does a lot of things, and that is running under Windows
2000. One of the things the application does is the creation and the use of
a ZIP file that helps start the application next time it is ...

code snippet below
class AA extends JPanel {
 public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
   g.setColor(Color.yellow);

I am uploading files via POST to a web server, from the client.
Everything works great, the uploading, the reading of the file, works
100% perfect.
The problem is I can't figure out how to add a progress bar to a