I'm a mainframe programmer teaching myself Java. I've made it through a
few intro books. I've learned OOP, a little Swing, and so forth. But I
don't know what to concentrate on next. Do I go straight to J2EE? A
list of topics would be appreciated. Thanks.

Can somebody help me with some of the basics?  I'm using Notepad++ and Sun's
compiler.
1) I would like to set the classpath in Windows XP so that I don't have to
specify the entire path each time I try to compile.  I tried going to

 Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I am maintaining a
java-based website that I didn't originally create. The development
platform is Eclipse Version 2.1.3. As an upgrade to the site I'm trying
to add a few new .jar files, as well as references to those .jar files

          What's the different?
1.
String uuidString = "102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F010";
UUID uuid = new UUID(uuidString, false);

I'm trying to write a program where the user enters the font name (e.g.
SansSerif), font style (e.g. italic), and font size, and then in a
suitably-sized new window, in the specified font, it displays various
information about the font (its ascent, descent, leading, etc.).

I have the following code, which compiles fine, and I can
view this applet successfully in my web page when I embed
it in the <APPLET> tags - Even my output statements are
working correctly when viewed in the Java Console.

      we can initial/close a Bluetooth connection, if user pause my
program to do other work and then back to my program, how can I detect
the bluetooth connection exist or not?
Should I add check routine in run()?

We've been running one of our web systems using SilverStream.
We've had this system for about 4 years and very little code has
changed.
In the last 3 months the server has been going down and produces a

My Tomcat won't start up anymore..  it's version 5.0.27..  on W2000..
I had to turn it off and on so much b/c every time I compiled a servlet
I had to turn it off and on, otherwise it wouldn't reload, which is a
real pain...  why can't Tomcat reload from a newly-compiled class ...

If I have a actionForm that contains a field that is type Integer, how do I
get the form submition to submit null rather than 0?
ie
<html:select property="myInteger">

I just tried running some stand-alone's I wrote/ran ok just a few months
ago..  they compiled fine but when tried to run got
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError..
I had v 1.4 installed... just installed new version 1.5 update 2..  put

    How to minimize a program ? ( not End a program )
When a J2ME program is running, I hope my user can exit the program for a
while to do other funtions of phone and back to my program when she/he want.
    Do we have this command support?

Hi -
I'm trying to extend Vector.  I want it to accept any generic class
that implements a particular interface.
This is my best attempt:

java code: Sony Ericsson BluetoothCar.jar
Device: Sony Ericsson P910i
1. Why sometimes CAR-100 can`t call bluetoothcar java program automatically?
Should I run it first?

How to make P910i +,- go into volume state?
It is arrow key normally, how to trigger it as volume key?
Best regards,
Boki.