in docs:
 void     setMaxAge(int expiry)
is different syntax from widely-used
   myCookie.setMaxAge(60*60*24*7);

If someone could help me with this I would be eternally grateful.
I'm working out of the "Beginning JSP 2.0" book and trying to get one
of the first examples working.
I created a RequestHeaders folder and placed a WEB-INF folder in it and

I have the following directory tree structure and contents therein.
CWD/class
`-- com
    `-- project

I can't get properties from a property file.. this seems pretty
straight-forward, what am I doing wrong?
Properties properties= new Properties();
    try {

when I compile Model file (see below) with other classess I get the
message that says "Model.java uses unchecked or unsafe operations".  It
seems to me that program runs fine, but I want to know why this happens
and, if possible, fix it.  Thank you.

Hy group
I'm a newbie to java, but I've already a little programming-experience
in vb. I'm making a program where the user has to gues three numbers.
The program has to have 3 textfield (I know, stupid) and the user can

When I compile this "Model.java"with other class (they compile fine)and
and then run I get the error message that says
"java.lang.NullPointerException at
int x = Random.uniform.nextIntFromTo (0, worldXSize - 1);

Hi all, could anyone help me with this?  I get the following message
when I compile "Model.java".  If I move that error-causing statement
under Arraylist method statement, then it compiles fine. I would really
appreciate it if anyone would explain why this happens.  Thank you

Hi all, for the last few days, I've posted several questions and gotten
great answers from fellow programmers.  I am very thankful about that.
I am asking a lot of questions because I am very new to programming and
have no one to ask around.  Here's my question.  I made four classes

I understand a static class, but what is a top level static class?  Is
the keyword meaningless?
I have discovered that if you use static on an top level enum it
allows the enum to have statics of its own.

    I'm having some problems with the parsing of dates in Java 1.5.
I have String in the form:
    Fri Dec 16 17:12:25 CET 2005
    Which is what I get when I perform a file.lastModified(), with

I have a freshly installed Windows XP SP2 with IE 6.0.2900
I downloaded the Java Plug-in 1.5.0_06 for IE but every time I open a
webpage with needs the java plugin it freezes and needs to be killed
with Taskmanager.

I know it's kind of bored question, but I still want to know that:
if we open 3 dos-commad-prompts in windows O.S. and all ranning a Java
program which thread is never stop util we manualy terminate it,
question:

I'm going through someone else's GPL'ed code and trying to figure just what
it does.  I don't think the whole routine is needed, here are the pertinent
lines:
       byte[] bRawData;

Following is the snippet from my class, Agent.  When I compile this, I
get the message that says
"Agent is not abstract and does not override abstract method
allowResizing(boolean) in uchicago.src.sim.gui.NetworkDrawable.