I'm just curious,  how many of the posters here code in Java on a daily
basis and how many, like me are learning the language for themselves?  I
don't use Java in my work except for the one program I wrote (which is
now in production and working fine).  I am learning the language ...

#  application server - JbossServer-4.0.4.
#  OS: windowsXP
#  IDE: Eclipse
#  Problem  - I want to print Current Output of Pdf file and should

This has been baffling me for quite a while.
I'm using a Java library provided by the vendor of a credit-card payment
system. This is located in /home/shop/lib/Transactor.jar. The system is
running Sun Java 1.4.2 on SuSE Linux 9.3. I compile my own code like this:

I hope all is well with you guys  Here's my question:
If I have this set up as :
JLabel label1 = new JLabel("    Enter Username:   ");
UsernameField = new JTextField(10);

Could someone else confirm that there is a problem with the sun download
site.  I've tried a number of time this evening to download from
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp
and am greeted with the following error

I am looking for O'Reilly "Head First JAVA" free ebook. If you have
it, can you
please post a link from where I can download it?
I greatly appreciate your help.

i want to generate a number that is unique for a machine.
I decided to get hdd serial. But i have to find more than that.
which hardware numbers can i take? how?

I have files structured like this:
./foo,java       (no package name)
./mypkg/bar.java (package mypkg)
I need to use class foo inside bar.  AFAIK, I cannot use import.  Can I

Hi;
I read that classes within the same package can access each others
functions as if the were their own.
This seems to be case when all of the classes are in the same source

I copied and pasted this code from the Sun Java Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/basic2d/examples/ImageLabel.java
package sim;
/*

This is e real newbie question.
I try to write some text to A JEditorPane
<snip>
       JEditorPane display = new JEditorPane();

The code below is from Effective Java, item 18.  Can anyone explain why the
book and the comment refer to "doubly nested anonymous classes"?  When I
compile the program the names I see have only one dollar sign in them.  I
can see they are anonymous claases but why "doubly ...

I'm creating a Traffic Light Simulator just for the hell of it.
Modelled after a traffic light with 4 panels, N, S, E, W each with 4
lights  R, G, FG, A (red, green, flashing green, amber)  I'm using a
double dimensioned array [5][4] of an enum called State.  Every 2

I have the following array:
Object [] myValues = new Boolean[] {new Boolean(false), new
Boolean(true)};
How can I check that myValues is a an array of Booleans?

Wow, it has been so long since I compiled basic examples outside of
ANT or an IDE that I forgot how to do it.
I'm appropriately embarrassed.
I am trying to compile 2 separate classes, in 2 separate source files,