For example, a tool where I can say "Show me all public statics" or
"show me all private methods returning voids" etc.
Eclipse doesn't seem to have a complete set of searches for that kind
of thing, so I'm looking elsewhere.

Could anyone tell me some good books to learn Java with for a complete
beginner to programming? I have never typed a line of code in my life!
Thanks!

Hey all,
Can someone help w/ the following question in the comments below?
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public class Element { ... }

All instances of self declared classes are inherited from Class Object,
which includes a method equals.
Let say,
Class selfClass{

I've had to drop a thread to build an ArrayList that has about 20,000
items for this one test case (can always be larger or smaller). I did
this so my GUI wouldn't freeze while this thread was processing data.
My problem is that once the thread finished processing it's data, I'd

Javanese:
This ...
http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/integration/eclipse/development.html
... sez Import the Webapp plugin by clicking on "File | Import ...". Then

   I have a simple query in core java. we have final varible in java.
and final variable means we can't change after assigning a value to the
varible and when it is final we have to go for staic final always. is
only class and object access to the varible is diff or any other

in java, is there a way to have multi-line strings as in c
"line 1\
line2"
i know one can do "line1" + "line2"...

I have a single large file of disk data that I need to process.  A number of
bytes are read into a buffered stream.  The buffer is processed and written
out to a new file.  The process generates several files which are post
processed.  Order does not matter.

How do I continue searching a HashMap where my previous search left
off. For example, I have this method which searches, say, 10 elements
into a HashMap ...
public void search() {

If a class has no instances, does garbage collection label the
corresponding instance of Class as "garbage" and collect it?
If it does, and that Class has static data, then wouldn't the static
data be lost if the Class instance is collected?