Is there a special meaning using _myMethod in java?
cheers,
//mikael

My present java programming practice  is to write a program that
specifies a  folderlocation/fileName.jpg within the program,  such as
"image/cak.jpg" inside the program. Now I use ...
public ShoImage() {

Hi, i had written a program in java. it is an addressbook.i want to
deploy this program as a complete software package to my friends.this
must be just like any other package like Adobe or any media player. i
am trying to get the answer to the question for so many days. please

I'm trying to use XML files as input to my program.  I decided to use
the DOM (DocumentBuilder, Node, etc.) instead of SAX.  I have loaded
the file into an instance of Document, call it 'doc', and now I want
to go through and extract the data.

I am trying to write a program that has a separate class file to the
rest of the functions within the program. How would I go about making
a section of the program run what it is inside the class.
Any help in this matter would be appreciated

i make a project in core Java using swings. now i wan to make or
covert my class files in to exe or setup.
if anyone knows about this then pls help me.

I want to make a class where a variable stores an ISO-639-1 language code.
I'm not sure whether to store this is as string (eg. 'EN', 'ES', 'FR',
etc.) or an 8-bit int where -128 would be 'AA', -127 would be 'AB', etc.
It seems to me that an 8-bit integer would be better ...

... the following code is not efficient at all,
i'm not worrying abt efficiencies  right now. i want
to get it done FIRST then tune it up. i realize i
overuse threads. (isn't there a while/wait() construct?)

I've decided to step back from the IDE and start learning/re-learning
Java without the aid of Eclipse or Netbeans.  I want to learn about
packages and such without having an IDE do all the work for me.
So my question is, what's the best editor on a *nix platform?  I am

I have some problem in one of my xml file which value "&" in it.
I am using JDOM API to extract xml data to database below is code:
the error line is in SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();  code.
Any one have any suggestion or ideas how to solve it ?

I am trying to write a program that has a file stored which has a row
of numbers. I would like the program to retrieve the information the
file and then order the numbers into assending order. How would I go
about doing this.

How does windows find java.exe if I type "java" in the command line
and if java.exe is not in the path?
I know that there is a registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
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I have the following command:
 java j -classpath ojdbc14.jar
The file "ojdbc14.jar" is in my current directory. If I use the
verbose mode, I can see that the odbc package is not getting loaded.

I try to test what vale a color variable has with
  if (myColor==Color.green)
and even when I know it is true it doesn't work, any idea how I could
solve this?

I have downloaded a 3:rd party jar file. When I try to run my code (
using the API) I get the following error:
class file has wrong version 49.0, should be 48.0
AFAIK: The class file i generated using jdk 1.5 and I try to execute it