Hi, I'm continuing to plod along with Java Server Faces and have made
quite a
bit of progress in the last few weeks thanks to several people here,
such as

In C++ its possible to make a pair is there something like that for java
or do I need to make a separate class with to fields?

I installed previously (successfully) J2EE 1.6 with jdk.
When I open now a command prompt and enter
java -version
then much to my surprise "java version 1.4.2_14" is displayed.

What do you do when open software (accounting from sourceforge)
requires php/sql/apache? I know SQL is a db access language
(yeah, yeah, Coddfruit & Datefish ), but nothing about the rest.
I put in some stuff from "Nuke PHP" and it does nothing.

Is there someway to always use 8 or 12 chars as spacing with printing to
screen so I get:
   1
1100

I need to print out the currency sign "¤", but both
System.out.print("¤") and System.out.print("\u00a4") don't work (they
print out a question mark). The sign will be converted into a
backgammon game font. It is part of the bottom border, so the diagrams

This is what I have to do for my Java class:
Create an assignment that includes using the ArrayList class, the
Random class, and the Switch statement. Ask to implement methods in
the same class (this means that there is going to be only one file

One of the reasons I am learn Java is to create a program which will
interact with a database.  The second reason would be portability.
Should I be looking at MySQL & C++ and worry about portability after
the fact?  Or would Java provide me with similar capabilities.

Hi, I hope someone can help with thias problem . . .
I have a class, Reverser_1 whose run method is called by another
class, TestReverser.
The code is not very well constructed, in regarding to the way it

Both of these voids are giving me problems:
private void countWords() {
        try {
            fileScan = new Scanner(new File("words.txt"));

the servlet program is :
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

Is Java capable of creating transparent graphics?  I have an idea for
a desktop application, and would like to have a transparent effect?
Thank you in advance for your input.
Lee

I would like to modernise (i.e. Swing-ify) my first applet, which
I introduced in the thread "Font size" last week. I would also
like to switch to Netbeans IDE (instead of hand-coding). With
Netbeans I am, unfortunately, even more of a newbie than with Java

Java pre-newbie here. I am not a Java Architect but I have been tasked to
list a Java technology stack for a due diligence document. I'm trying to
relate my experience with other stacks (LAMP, .NET), so I am sure I've
missed the target a bit, or a lot. Here is the background:

I am trying to call a dll function whose signature is
BOOL WINAPI CryptSignHash(
HCRYPTHASH hHash,
DWORD dwKeySpec,