I will soon need to access classes that will be on different CD-ROMs and
often will not be available when I start a Java program.  The different
CD-ROMs will have different directory structures on them.  How can my Java
program access classes on those CDs when the classes will not ...

Can someone please try and explain how this could even happen.
I'm about to start fixing some bugs in a program for a client. They
haven't really been that organised and just gave me some source code
from somewhere, which may or may not be the version of the source code

How can I convert a primitive boolean to String?
cheers,
//mikael

  Basically, I need to be able to have an EDITABLE document (in a
JEditorPane or JTextPane) with active hyperlinks.  All I have read
seems to say that the HyperlinkListener only works for non-editable
documents.  To get around this, I have been trying to imbed buttons

having some trouble writing this program and having to use
Interger.parseInt, and the JOptionPane options also.
Thanks for any help,
whl

Can someone help me to make a button smaller? I am new to Java
programming. Thanks!

Is there an easy way to get the position and dimension of the window
of another program that is running?
My problem is that I want to do a screen capture of the part of the
screen that corresponds to parts of the window of another program every

Hi, Iam new to this programming life[Basically a biology student] and
learning the GUI stuff for one of my course project work. I did  run
the program with the below code, but was able to open ONLY a window as
you see in first HelloWorldSwing program. i didnot get any text boxes,

   i'm currently writing a simple graphics app which includes a save
file function. This works 99% of the time but when reading the file
back there are anomalies in some pixels (only about 1%) they're saved
as ARGB but that seems irrelevant as a hexeditor shows the file doesn't

I am developing an application that supports loading plugins. It is
using the JPF framwork. The problem that I am having is that I want to
start each of the plugins within the application in different java
versions (start a JVM within another JVM). Currently, the plugins are

say I have the following integer variables :-
       int is_client_system = 0;
       int client_total = 0;
       int is_server_system = 0;

I have an app where cells in a table each need to display a set of values.
I can put a JComboBox into the cells of a column by setting the column
cell editor and renderers, but it is always the same set of values.  I
need to have different sets for each box, and I ony know the ...

I am trying to create a Toaster Window to display a small piece of text for
informative purposes in my GUI.  My code is below: the window shows fine but
I want it to disappear after a given time, however the timer never fires,
can anybody tell me why?

Could you please explain me Swing Threading model. splly invokeLater
method. I am experinced C++ programmer , but new to java.
Should we create another thread in event handler.
pls explain me concepts

I am trying to execute a sh script file from a Java method.
The key part of the code looks like this:
        Process p = null;
        try {