i am using a jcombobox (in its own class) as a popup from a
filechooser class when a user opens a file so that i can define in an
xml file the location and attribute for that file (the attribute from
the JComboBox). However i am unable to access the selectedItem from my

when a small program like
class Hello{
public static void main(String arg[])
{

I need for a class project a Binary Encoded Text package for a messaging
system that I'm building.
could anyone here direct me for a place to download it from the web?
thanks in advance

I have a very simple Java Applet (see below), when I launched 2 browsers
(say 2 Netscapes or firefox, with latest Sun Java VM 1.5.0), pointing to the
same Java Applet. They shared the SAME Java VM!!!! When clicking on the
start button, the text is printing to the wrong browser!!! ...

I need advise re the best data structure to use for representing data
in aggregated form. I am looking to do something like this
       Year 1            Year 2
    number percent    number percent ...

Hi.  I am a beginner in java so i may sound like a total prat here,
but here goes:
I have been given my university coursework to do.  I have to make a
program whereby a customer ordering boxes is asked what attributes of

I want to tokenize a string like '/Device/Interface?NAME=Serial1/0' into
 the following tokens.
Device
Interface?NAME=Serial1/0

My application (on JBoss) is experiencing strange problem on one of our
environment - on Linux on Itanium 2 - Sun Java 1.4.2_07 and 64 bit.
On all other platforms (windows, linux, 32 bit) is ok.
After 2-3 http requests the OutOfMemory exception is thrown.

Has anybody here dealt with the problem of converting PDA record stores
(Palm .PDB files) into meaningful ASCII-format files?
I have a MIDlet running on a Palm PDA that uses a DataOutputStream on
top of a ByteArrayOutputStream to write data (longs and ints) into a

I am trying to print some Tamil characters but does work though Hindi
characters are being printed. I have fonts for both the languages.
Plus I just want to know how java picks up the fonts, does it have its
own fonts. Below is the program I have written.

1.
I have a method,
public void something(String fullyQualifiedClassName)
{

When I attempted to update the JRE from 1.3.1 to 1.5 on my Win XP
machine, the installer stalled midway through and I aborted it.  Now
when I try to reinstall 1.5, I get a J2SE Runtime Environment
Installation error stating that "You already have this version of the

what is the reason why some Javascripts work in Internet explorer and
the same thing does not work in Mozilla.... or what is the difference
in execution in mozilla and Explorer
thanks in advance

what is best to write an app to upload files?  I don't see a FileUpload
class in java.io..  is jakarta.commons.fileupload only way?  thank you..
 Frances

I struggling with java here. Can anyone tell me how to pick up the most
frequent character in a string?
I've browsed the API but I am just lost.
What I intend to do is decrypt a string without a code given? Like