I could really use your help.  I have this JAVA program and it needs to
call an outside program.  I used the following code to do so.
boolean OldC = NUFile.fileExists(Acc + "\\Client.c");
   if (OldC == true) {

is it possible to initialize a public static final member of a class in
the class' constructor? I try to do this and I receive error message:
variable PLUS is declared final; cannot be assigned.
The code is:

             I write a code that perform jsr-82 SPP communications, but it
seems that not every phone can run this code well, I am confusing that is
the MIDP version problem?
Best regards,

I'm using JCreator and following along with the Dummies book on
beginning programming with Java.
Is there a way in JCreator to store snips of code so I don't have to
retype each time?

As a relative Java newcomer I have taken over -on an amateur level-
development of an applet that is forever stuck in Java 1 for
technical reasons, but still has uses in art and education :)
I preface my question with this fact, so folks understand why there

Hello there I am trying to develop a simple multithreaded chat server
but I am stuck.
Below ther are 3 separate classes that is are not inner classes of the
Server class.

We are having trouble using Java Web Start on our Solaris 9 machines.
Using Netscape 4.78, when we click on a jnlp link, the JWS starts, but
does not download any files or show us our jar file.  Some suggestions
from the web seem to be

When trying to properly stucture package visibility in a client/server
application the question of exception propagation comes up again and
again. I was wondering if people could point me to any best practices
for this problem.

Starting on September 25th, a group is going to make a run through of
Bruce Eckel's acclaimed "Thinking in Java" (3rd edition). It's a very
informal arrangement whereby we'll study about a chapter a week, and
have the opportunity to share ideas and solutions via a yahoo group.

Whenever I run Ant I get this message:
Files\Javazjre1.5.0_04\lib\ext\QTJava.zip""=="" was unexpected at this
time.
So I cannot process any buildfiles.

I'm in web development and occasionally do some client-side Java (I got my
scjp a few years ago). I've been asked to put together a proposal on how to
achieve the following, in Java.
We're looking to write a piece an application that functions over the

I'm a newbie who hopes they have come to the correct place.
Basically, I want to develop a web service for consumption by .NET
program (hopefully C#). The performance of the service would have to be
able to be very fast in response and be somewhat reliable (i.e. not

I'm trying to understand a warning message that Eclipse is giving me.
I have the following code:
1: public class Test {
2:    class Foo {}

I've got some code to load an image using MediaTracker, but it seems a
bit over-the-top to use this class since there's only ever one image
being loaded at any time. Can the same thing be achieved using the
ImageObserver class?

I have read about methods until I'm blue in the face..
yet every time I try to write my own method from scratch I get "illegal
start of expression" error no matter how I declare it..
public String myMehtod() {