Does anyone know of a way to configure Eclipse to validate syntax for
Java 1.5.0 rather than earlier versions?  I keep getting annoying
syntax errors when using generics that are not pleasing to my eye.
Just curious if I have to suck it up for now or if there is a fix.

I want to get the source code from openOffice files, in plain xml. Now,
I've installed the whole openOffice API, but this is to actually work with
the file itself. What I want, is to get the plain xml code. When opening an
openOffice document with winrar, I see that there are a ...

Yesterday I downloaded a free Java Development platform from
Skywaybuilder.com that is pretty cool.  It uses a flow diagram/Viso
type interface to build apps and then generates the code
automatically. I've never seen anything like this before and wanted

I'm a recent convert to the Linux community and was wondering if
someone could provide me with some pointers on how I should go about
my Java development.
Here are my questions.

Is there a way to test if a file (or directory) exists with Apache
Ant? The manual has a <condition> element and a <filesmatch> element,
but together they appear to compare files only.  Could <filesmatch> be
coerced into checking for the existence of a single file?

I'm having a little trouble with JavaCC, a parser generator, and its
tree-creating tool jjtree.
I am trying to create a parser (and engine) for a language similar to SQL
and  the first step is to get a parse tree. I have made some tests with