I have ant task which doesn't work:
    <condition property="isLinux">
        <os name="linux" />
    </condition>

I am using netbeans. One feature that I love is the insert code
feature, for automatically making getters and setters it has saved me
hours of braindead tedious work.
I am looking at some code now that has gardually evolved into a mess

Since JAVA (I know it's not an acronym, but it stands out like that)
was officially introduced in 1995, it has changed the way most of us
look at the Operating System. Bill Gate (how ironic) once said that it
was not about the hardware but the software which will be the future.

So I'm writing a game similar to this one:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bartle/volleyball-original/index.html
I'm using an Arc2D for the "slime" and an Ellipse2D for the ball, and
what I'm doing is when the ball intersects the Arc2D, I'm having it

It has bugged me that the for:each syntax would not let me write code
of the form:
String categories = "amq";
...

Where is best to install Java, TomCat, etc??
Under Root ie C:\Java
Any reason why it would be better to install under root rather than C:
\Program files???

It seems there is a bug with our XMPP client (Java 1.6, smack) - I store
the users settings in a Properties file. My boss tells me on some
customers PCs the settings file sometimes ends up losing the contents.
The application is used by two people in our company in production, I

can anyone demonstrate to me how to implement the TypeVariable<D extends
GenericDeclaration> interface of the java.lang.reflect package?
would really be helpful for me to see an algorithm that implements
getBounds() and getGenericDeclaration(). am in the clouds from reading the

This is an easy problem, so please give newbies first crack at it.
Let's say you owned a chain of pizza stores, and you wanted to offer a
premium.  The customer takes a number off a pizza box he has
purchased, and enters it into a website, to say let them play games,

I am trying to read text from a simple Jtextfield using the syntax
String StrRound = txtRoundName.getText();
       if (StrRound.equals("")) ... etc
I am also using the method dispose() to close the window. Since when

I have a program that allows users to view images and then, by
dragging their mouse accross portions of the image, draw a box around
the portion and add a note that describes that part of the picture
(sites like Flickr allow similar functionality).   The problem with

Following a previous inquiry in this group, about how to provide help
documentation for my application, I've decided to distribute my
webstart application using JavaHelp documentation.
I understand that since JavaHelp isn't part of a standard Java

First of all I am new to java. I would like to connect to a database
using the Class.forName method but I am having some difficulties
If the said method is set in the main form everything works as it
should but if I can't figure out how I can instansiated through a

I'm having problems tying the F1 key to the various menuitems in a
JMenu object to provide context sensitive help.
When the menu is open, and the F1 key is pressed, it seems that the
ActionMap for the last menuitem in the menu always gets activated,