I've stripped the code of the standard TextSampleDemo.java down to the
bare minimum to demonstrate the problem I'm trying to solve. I want a
button in the toolbar that will turn the selected text in the text pane
to bold when it is clicked. I've been beating my head against this

I've written an ap for a client who is a printer. It allows him to do
page layouts for printing, and works exactly as originally speced out.
Now he wants to know if he can do multi-page layouts on a single sheet
that would require certain regions of the text to be displayed upside

I have this problem: I'm using websphere 4, wth JDK 1.3 and J2EE 1.2,
and struts.
I have set an action that after doing some coding would forward
(redirect=false) to a jsp. In the browser url I correctly see the .do

I would like to create a JAVA applet that would do some file processing
before sending it to a server, but a heard that JAVA applet have some
restrictions that could prevent the applet to do anything with file
from client side. Is there a way for an applet to open a file in the

i have two different images .how can i merge two images and get output
as a single image which is combinatios of both the images..
thanks in advance

Hi, I'm rather new to J2EE, so pleace have patience with me :o)
I'm trying to make an application in which I use Interceptors. I'm using
Eclipse with MyEclipse, have installed JBoss 4.0.4 GA and installed EJB3.0
RC8 as the install.html file says (even though some files ara missing ...

I was just wondering if anyone could help me.
I am new to this java stuff. I have downloaded netbeans and I am
currently trying to compile this file into a web applet.
http://www.softecmicro.com/downloads/prog/ak-s12ne64-a_java.zip

I would appreciate your help with Java Packages. I understand the
concept but am having trouble make it work as shown in the example
below (adapted from Thinking in Java book). I am using J2SE 1.5 and
Windows XP Professional.

hi everybody !!
i am a new user of java language so ni am not too much advanced.
but i want to be a good programmer so iwant ur help.
can anybody help me by giving certain do's and don'ts while handling

I have a web application on websphere 4. It uses struts and hibernate.
The url for example is http://www.mydomain.net/context/index.do
where context is the context root.
I will use 2 different languages (it and en) and maybe in the next

When I run an application with IBM's JDK, am getting the following
exception:
"java.lang.SecurityException: SHA MessageDigest not available"
Any idea on how to create support for this Message Digest algo? One way

How can I extract source code from the debugging tables in the .class
files compiled with the "-g" option without running gdb? Note that I do
not want to reverse-engineer the byte-code. I am assuming that when
compiling the code with the debugging option turned on the source code

I work in a hospital system that has a few different applications that
can run different versions of java. The "highest" version of java we
use now is 1.4.2_09. We would like to lock that version on our users
computers and not allow any updates to java (the newest version of java

I am a relative beginner at Java programming.  I have created a simple
Java Program for work, and I do not know how to make the program run on
different computers as a standalone program.  What do I need to change
in order for the program to run without a program like Eclipse?  I do

I tried
System.out.println(System.getProperty("file.encoding"));
        System.out.println(System.getProperty("file.encoding.pkg"));
        System.out.println(System.getProperty("sun.io.unicode.encoding"));