I have seeen the following in java class:
public class MyClass {
static {
    try{

... anyway to do the above???
a.troll

Hello, all.
I have a bit of a problem with something I'm trying to do with Java,
Windows XP and Tomcat...
I'm using Tomcat to deploy Lucene as a search engine, and I also want to

I have a small project to do for work, and I want to be able to read
in data from an Excel file. A quick Googling led me to http://poi.apache.org/
, and I'm planning on using that to complete this task. I've
downloaded, but I'm not sure where to put it. I'm using jdk1.6.0_01,

... i know i should be using a lot more methods
but then they aren't declared? should i declare them in the main
so they are global???
k

I am trying to get started with httpclient, but in all honesty I dont know
how to set everything up.
I have downloaded the httpclient tarball from the commons website,  I have
unzipped that tarball, and moved everything into the workspace/project that

1 why not just catch the error then write it to std.err so if your
program does dump there is written for you to debug by?
2 my program runs fine but the spinners(i have 3), when you clik to
advance one it goes way up, almost infinite.

Hi all. I am currently working as an IT technician and would like to
create a program in java that will store in a Random Access File each
computer number and how many computers are in that room. I have
managed to get the user input and then add that into a file which is

/**
 * @(#)BigFonts4
 *
 *

This piece of code is from the Sun Java Tutorial
class ContinueDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String searchMe = "peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers";

If I have a double array (String[][] myData = new String[x][y];), how can I
get the size of both dimensions of this array?  If a double array were
given passed as a parameter, how could I get both the x and y sizes?
Thanks!

How can we copy content from a clipboard to an Appletviewer?

Hi all. I am trying to connect to a MySQL Server running locally on my
machine. I have written a program before using MySQL which worked
fine. I have copied over the MySQL.library program from the program
that I have written before and adding the details into the project

Hello all, I have this strange difficulty. I want to copy a stream
of bytes using url.openStream. class URL has no other types of
input streams. I had
URL url=new URL("http://............");

Let's say I have a directory tree something like this
dir
  |- src
  |- classes