Are there any ant geniuses who can help me understand how to use ant to
access properties in an xml file?  My xml file is very simple, but it
does contain some duplicate elements.  This is just a tiny bit more
complicated than the available docs and explanations, so I've had no

what could potentially cause the System.arraycopy() method to terminate
abnormally, and what can i do to prevent this abnormal termination?

I am new to programming and my first language i am using is Java. Anyways I
have a source code here and it compiles fine but the program doesn't do what
it is suppose to do. I know that the source code needs to be in the same
directory as the program files. However, I don't know ...

Hi, I am using java in Debian. I only installed jikes and kaffe.
When I compile a program using jikes, I encounter an error importing
java.awt.*.
What should I do?

I am trying to create a dynamic url with jstl and this syntax below is not
working.  It is claming an unmatched a ref tag.  Can some see where it is?
tia  This is TC4.1 jstl 1.0, etc.
   <td><a href="<c:url value="/delete1.jsp"><c:param name="id"value="$

Hello, i have a simple client/server app using java sockets.  If i
simply close the client window, the server doesnt detect if the socket
is closed.  Here is all the ways ive tried to test for the closed
connection but none work.

i am writing a java applet that requires 'array assignments' to be made -
meaning that i let one array be assigned to another.  something like
'array1 = array2'.
but i notice that when i assign arrays to eachother like this then they

Hey all, I have a class which is a singleton that I use with an
observer pattern. This class extends from Observable. I also have two
other classes that implement Observer. Here's what I do ...
1) I get an instance to my singleton within my app.

In Tomcat I can trying to do something that should be very easy.  I
would like to redirect
http://xyz.com/mail to https://mail.xyz.com
Can someone please tell me how to do this?

Hi to everyone,
what i want to do is to compute the time that CPU consumes in order to
execute one program statement (i.e an assignment statement, an addition ,a
division etc).

Why does setSoTimeout not work in non-blocking io?
The only way I can ever detect if the connection has closed, is if my
program writes out pointless data every couple of seconds just to
check.

I have a strange problem ... I want to create a process and capture stdout :
    ...
      gint std_out;
      char* argv[3] = {"/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.08/bin/java","helloworld",NULL};

I have a strange problem:
I have here a notebook with Windows XP and Windows 98 installed.
When XP is up, Java runs fine. When W98 is up and I start a
Java-application, the computer freezes for some minutes, then I get:

Hi List,
I need some mind-pushing about something I have to solve, I have a
string array like this (its just about a own light-wiki):
*SomeList 1.1

I've been racking my brain (and the generics tutorials I can find) to
try and figure out how to make the following work (its a bit
long-winded, so bear with me)...
I have a class 'Edge' that represents a link between two 'Vertex'