I build a DAO method to get Location object by an id:
public Location getLocationById( int locationId );
I will only call this method when there should be a Location having same id
as locationId. So if I could not find that Location for any reason its an

from latest oreilly Learning Java, pg 623:
www.francesdelrio.com/java/TextEntryBox.java (SSCCE)
I have a few questions about this example:
1.  a second class gets created (TextEntryBox$1.class) when this is

I'm considering to take the SUN Webcourse WJB-314-180 in order to
prepare for the SCWCD exam (next to the Head First and SWCD Exam Study
Kit (Desmukh) books).
Does anyone has experience with this web course by sun?

we are encountering some problems conncting us to the WRAP THOR
evaluation kit using a mobile. Actually we are encountering some
problems connecting several mobiles among each other as well. Maybe you
can help me.

Hello to everyone,
what i want to achieve is to write a java method that returns 2 integers
(the minimum element of an array plus its position).
Is it possible to write a java method that returns an array of integers?

I am trying to index and search some french content. I am using the
StopAnlyser.
In my application searching for any string with an accent returns zero
hits.

I am struggling with installing a package that uses Java.  I am running Solaris
9 and the install script outputs the following:
ocinstall: I must be able to load the java shared library to proceed
         with this installation. This means that the proper java

pls why do some methods have ');' at the end?  (had never encountered
this, I think, until I started doing GUI stuff..)
here's an example, from
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/learn/example1.html

I'm trying to run an applet w/an external package that I have put in
C:\tomcat\common\lib; applet is in C:\tomcat\webapps\appName  I import
package the usu. way (import org.jivesoftware.smack.*;) it compiles
fine; but when I try to run it in browser it won't run..  when I try to

2 simple questions from a learning programmer:
1)  Is it possible to have multiple action listeners in several different
classes and packages, or must you centralize all your listeners in a method
of the main class?

Hey all,
I have these code snippets, the top one is in my GUI. I'd like to know
how to tell my GUI that my data has finished processing in a thread
dropped by the GUI's main class.

Do you have any advice to give for some one who will take the Java
Certification?  Both the programmers part and developers exam?

Given an application as shown below, is there a way to keep the moving
bar in the same relative position with the buttons (2 steps per button
and aligned at top/bottom) on the buttons right side? If the user does
a resizing it after a "run" by using a mouse to grab of the corner of

While experimenting with session i noticed the following. If i call a
sertain servlet from Firefox, there is a sessionid with let's say 1. if
i call the same Servlet from a new IE window, i get a new sessionid
='2'. If i then open the same again in Firefox, the sessionid was the

When debugging a C or C++ binary file, the file is different from the release
version of binary file (debug version binary file is larger). My question is,
if we want to debug a Java binary file (.class file), is the version of file
(which we use to debug) the same as the file ...