I am finding that Tomcat is not the easiest tool to setup and use. What would be
an easier tool to use (setup and configure), when one's purpose is teaching and
using some basic servlet and JSP features? Nothing heavy-duty, no products to
release or anything like that...

excuse this naive question from a newbie, but i am wondering what the
differences are between 'java' and 'java script'.
i know that java script is a language thats embedded in the html of the
brouser and the clients machine then interprets that, so then is java a

Hi all, I am steve Burrus, a relative newbie to this particular
newsgroup, although I have been a member of the
"comp.lang.java.programmers" group for quite a long time now! Listen, I
posted this question to them some time ago, but never got back a

i am working on a simple lexical analyzer with jflex
what i want is to remove the comments of a code of the form:
{ coment }
i build this patterns:

I am having problem using filter mapping in in Tomcat 5.0 on windows
I tried the following in my web.xml.
...
<filter-mapping>

 Thanks to all for your feedback on my previous question on unit
testing.
 I want to step back and ask the group a broader question.  Imagine
you are the VP Engineering at a large software company with the

I am planning to setup a java-based collaborative authoring tool using
only open source software (for a university project). I have been
searching the net for days and haven't found anything appropriate yet.
The tool should allow registered users to help expanding (and

how easy (or difficult) is it to pass results from a procedure written in
JAVA to one written in PHP and vice versa?
is this at all possible to do?

There seems to be two main ways of creating PDF from java - 1. via HTML to
PDF and 2. using an API (e.g. iText).
What are your thoughts - is there an adopted 'standard' method of the two
above, or personal/company preference. Want to go the most supported and

I downloaded Eclipse 3.0 last night.  Eclipse blots out the sun alright
- the image size is 100 MB!  And that's just for my tiny one-class test
project.
I think I'm sticking with Jbuilder.

I have a problem getting Eclipse to work: The default setup complains
about having found no application id. And trying to set one doesn't work.
I'm using Eclipse 3.0 under Win2000 with java 1.4.2, and
I installed it in C:\eclipse .

Who can recommand me a free or cheap install tool for commercial purpose?

NunniFSMGen v. 1.1 has been released on August 12th 2004
NunniFSMGen is Open Source and comes with GPL license.
http://nunnifsmgen.nunnisoft.ch/en/home.jsp
NunniFSMGen is a java tool that starting from a transition table

Eclipse is great. But I think I miss a very important function:
Is it possible to set a quick bookmark in the java editor (like unsing Crtl-F2 in UltraEdit)?
I know the bookmark-functionality, but that doesn't have any keystrokes.
Therefore you can't mark a line with one key, ...

I am trying to create a JTree using netbeans, but I am having trouble
finding out how to add nodes to the tree, and changing the root node
of the tree. When I add a new JTree to a panel, netbeans creates the
tree with a no argument constructor. How do I use the IDE to add a new