Working on a Java Program and want to add a scrolling bar, but cannot
get it to work properly.  When i compile there seems to be an error
with the line
      outputTextArea.setText( outputTextArea );

Any documation, or tutorial available as how to fire your own events?
I've found very little.

1) Extend eventObject to provide information about the event

Folks,
If I enter the following test class into Eclipse, it (Eclipse)
underlines "break leave" and complains that "The label leave is
missing". It doesn't matter if the leave label is above the break stmt

Hi everyone,
            I have a rather basic question so please bear with me.
You see i have a java program in which i need to read a serialized java
object at one go. You  see the problem the is that the size of the java

As part of a research project I'm creating a search tool (based on top
of Google) to aid Java programmers.  Given a programming related query,
it extracts JDK programming references from the result contents and
figures out which are correlated with the results.

I'm programming a WinAmp-like app but have become totally stuck. Any advice
would be greatly appreciated.
Basically I need a class to manage the playlist. It should iterate over the
playlist and for each track create a Player, wait for an EndOfMediaEvent,

hi everyone.i'm trying to build a GUI using swing.I've to read a line
from a file which consists
of columns.i should be able to read the no of colmns into some variable
and dynamically create that many no of buttons and them to the

I want to make abstract class for reading file
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public abstract class fileCommand {

I'm working with pre-existing code on an open source project.  The first
part of the program builds a jar file with a lot of classes, extra data and
several "packs", which are mini-archives themselves.  On the "other end",
the mini-archives are read out from within the jar file and ...

I've been using Java on and off at work for a while, and I thought it was
about time I did some development at home. Unfortunately, I cannot install
Java on my home computer.
I am using Windows MCE 2005, and I am trying to install the Java Runtime