I want to write an own CVS client in Java. And I am looking for the following
materials,
- CVS protocol specification
- Education materials about CVS protocol

How do you break apart strings? For example the user type in John, Doe
E. and you want put John in one variable, Doe in another and E in the
third? I looked through any java books i found and it did not mention
this?

I would like to use a regular expression in Java to read those lines
from a file which are not comments and do not start with whitespace.
Commented lines start with #
Currently with grep, I am using the command:

I've been looking through the various XML parsers API available and I have
decided to use the SAX parser. Probably not the best of choices but I think
it can do the job. What is the best way to parse an XML file using the SAX
parser ? I have seen examples where they store each ...

My project involves copying files from one Host to another Host located
on the same network of, currently, Solaris machines.
Is there a library or API set that performs tasks similar to Unix's
"rcp host1:<filename> host2:<filename>"

After reading Ivor Hortons Beginning Java 2 book I am about to atempt
my first program - a simple contact manager. This will be a GUI
application that will store contacts for the user in an XML file.
Before I embark on this I wanted to run my class design past the group

I seem to run into a dead end.
I have been able to perform an image transformation into a smaller
image, however I always seem to lose a color channel.
Can anyone help me?

What's the general contract/expectations for passing objects?  Is the method
receiving the reference expected to copy the object if it might modify it?
Let's say a method receives a buffer and needs to modify that buffer.  Is it
an okay practice to note in the javadoc that the ...

I'd like to hear opinions on this matter -- I just started a new
job, and I noticed lots of NullPointerExceptions happening at
various places in the code.
I talked to the head engineer on this project, and he was of the

I forgot to assign serialVersionUID to my serializable class. A new
field got added to the class in the newer version. I don't have access
to the old .class now to generate the serialVersionUID from it and
assign it to the newer version.

I'm working on a site which contains some Java elements which load extremely
slow.  I would like to know if this is due to my Java environment
configuration or some other cause. I'm running IE on Windows XP.   The site
is:  http://www.lafronterarentacar.com   Any help would be ...

Can JCheckBox's be put inside a JComboBox?
I'm trying the following, but it's not working ...
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        myFilter = new JComboBox();

is it possible to extract data from a web based java applet in order to
enter that data in mysql?
for example, something that would let me extract the data shown in applet on
http://gcitrading.com/forex-quotes.htm and enter it in mysql. The data needs

I am using Windows XP, j2sdk1.4.2_05, Tomcat 5.5.10.
When I try to start the Tomcat service on port 8080 I get a message
Service Manager is attempting to start the following service... "Apache
Tomcat"  Then the message dissapears and the service does not start.

I am having problem using methods on class Hashtable in jdb using 1.4,
I get error "Arguments match no method" . I will appreciate if someone
can provide a work-around, besides using the 1.5 debugger.
Consider the following simple (empty) class: public class Empty {public