I learnt to program in the top down procedural system (assembly). Knowing
when to create a new function was easy. If you kept repeating the same task
then you needed to put it in a subroutine. But I'm a bit confused by all
these classes in Java. What criteria should I use to ...

Please explain the difference .

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Because of a problem, I had to format my hard drive, and reinstall MS XP. I
downloaded j2sdk-1_4_2_10-windows-i586-p, and tried to compile my java
program. I got the following:
C:\j2sdk1.4.2_10\bin>javac ira.java

Hi..
" Does anybody know how I can Drag an icon/object  (which is an exe.
and has short cut, for example java web start icon)  from windows
desktop to Java GUI application ? If so, where can I Find More

HI, Can anybody help me out here, i am building a chatwindow with three
buttons 'send,clear,quit choice list, textarea & textfield....
I've got three classes ChatWindow, QuitChat, SendAndClearHandler
QuitChat class works O.K., i can close window + use quit button

Im developing an application that accepts arabic string in
a text field. just I want to customize the application
to set the default language in arabic means the user
doesn't have to converts the language or the direction(right-to-left)

each time i try to log-on, microsoft web browser appears, before
google?
then 2 pop-up boxes have to be eliminated from microsoft prior to
getting into google home page?

Hi, I'm looking for some double-buffering help. I'm back with a different question than my previous one.
Within a derived Canvas class, PlotCanvas, I have declared:
Image offscreenImage;
Graphics offscreenGraphics;

sorry for my bad english... (i'm italian)
Problem
i've to build and application that uses plugin in the following way:
1.the core starts.

I am trying to read in CSV data.  "test.scv"'s contents are:
1,2,3
4,5,6
7,8,9

My appologies if this is not the correct forum  but I am desperate.
I have downloaded Netbeans V5.0 with JDK 1.5.0_05.  Tomcat will not start.
It just seems to hang until it times out.  If anyone else has had this
problem OR can direct me to a possible solution  I would be deeply ...

I need to print out French characters
(ççÇÇààÀÀèèÈÈééÉÉ) in a PDF file by running my code on
Unix. I'm using iText to create the PDF. The configurations in iText
for the fonts include BaseFont.IDENTITY_H for encoding and

Hello everyone.  I'm having a small bit of trouble controlling the
location of my textfield using a flowlayout manager.  As it stands, the
textfield sits next to the label.  I was wondering if there is a way to
center the textfield 2 lines down from the label (~24 pixels I ...

I just downloaded and installed the latet version of J2SE on my XP system but
was unable to open the tools.jar file.  I get a message box that says "Failed
to load Main-Class manifest attribute ..."  How can I fix this?