Can a Swing GUI JTextArea be used as a console ?
I mean, can be received questions from a java program and reply them?
Thanks a lot.

I would like advice on what to buy for a good reference book. I don't
need hand-holding, I just need a good, thorough, reference book. I am
a casual c/c++ programmer that had an introduction to java some years
ago and would like to pick it up again. Thanks.

I have a web application in asp.net wich I am rewriting to Java.  Is
about uploading pictures online.  Web system upload perfectly
pictures, but in original size.  I would like to upload too a thumbail
version of the big picture.  For that, I am using Jpegencoder from

I have this program that displays a graphical chart in a JPanel. The panel
(and the chart) is rendered in paintComponent(), wich uses some (live) data
provided by some other object.
The panel repaints itself automatically whenever it is needed, eg. when

How can i merged the cell in jxl?
I want the cells of a row.Their is a method getMergerdCells()but thier
is no method setMergedCells().Pls reply as early as possible

In an earlier time-wasting diversion I wrote
    private static final String THIS="This", THAT="That", OTHER="Other";
...
        bp.add(makeJButton(THIS));

Where can I found examples for a gui with a big textarea and some buttons ?
Thanks.

I'm a beginner in this Java.
I learnt Library functions in C from the Help file of my compiler
( Turbo C++ 3.0 )
How can I learn Java's library from the API docs?

Somewhere along the line I got the idea that enum classes could have
any scope, private through public, but the enum constants could not
have an explicit scope, but by default they were always public.
IntelliJ Inspector started trying to put "private" on my enum

How to compile a java source with UTF-8 encoding in cmd? (The default
encoding of my OS is GBK, a Chinese encoding)
Thank you

hi everyone...
i  using IBM Websphere studio application developer v 5.1.2. to
create
some java projects. but i m not able to debug them. can someone

I have developed a Browser view plugin.
Following are its details:
->On running the code, a browser opens in a new view called
BrowserView.  ->This browser is able to navigate through the internet

I need to write a code that compares to an uppercase and if not an uppercase
to ouput an error message. Can anyone help?

I do not know if I am saying that correctly.  This is a school
project, I do not know how to get data from 2 different files called
Client.java and Attorney.java, both having data pulled in by
LawFirm.java

I downloaded a java source of a tool which is spread over multiple (40-50) *.java files
which are located in different sub directories according to their package name.
Unfortunately no further instructions (e.g. Ant script) are available.
However the source should be compileable ...