i have been window shopping for development tools.
does netbeans have a few basic beans (components)?
i.e. dropdown, listbox, checkbox, button, text field, string grid,
memo control

does anyone know if i use foundation if i can get access to a database.  in
delphi personal the controls were NOT data aware but i used things called a  
wrapper (libsql at sourceforge).  is there similar capability when using
foundation?  would i use a a wrapper only or could i ...

can someone recommend a book that has good coverage of ANT.
it does not have to be solely an "ant" book. I am using eclipse for my
development environment.
thanks for the help

Hi!,
I need to open a file in format PDF from my application, which it is programed on Java Studio Creator.
So, I already tried this:
//code

Hi, I have recently installed Eclipse 3.0.1 on my Windows XP SP 2
system. The basic Eclipse platform runs fine, at least for Java
development.
I installed GEF 3.0.1, EMF 2.0.1, and Visual Edit (VE) 1.0.1. My

I would like to be able to step through an application that is
connected to a database (using JDBC) in Eclipse.  Can this be done?
Does anyone have a code snippet that would allow me to do this?
Thanx,

I'm kinda new to the whole java / eclipse world. I installed it, and it
works excellently. There's a problem with setting my preferences, though.
I go window -> preferences -> workbench -> editors -> text editor. Here i
mess with the values - for example changing the highlight ...

Hello there.  I am trying to learn Java on Windows.  I've
been developing C/C++ code on Unix.  I figure netbeans
would shield me from most of Unix-to-Windows growing pains.
Anyways, I am trying to do something as simple as get input

  I m currently working on a project done in Developer 2000 and Oracle
Forms. This application is getting invoked by a browser. I want to know
the information about the number of forms loaded currently in the
application , active component etc..Can someone please help providing

Can anyone explain to me the apparently only-partial support for java
1.5 in Eclipse (3.1m4)?  Legal 1.5 code fails in Eclipse - autoboxing
specifically seems problematic.  Why would that happen?  Isn't eclipse
using my java 1.5 sdk when it does its builds? For example, this code

Does anyone know if the online docs for ANT are available in pdf?
thanks for your help
john

how can I view variables while debugging in hex format?
I didn't see any settings in the debug preferences.
thanks for the help
john

We are going to develop a web based application that uses Oracle 9i
database at the beckend. We started with Oracle JDeveloper 10g. It
seems fine but it fails to meet our needs at some points. Can you
recommend another tool for us?

I recently moved from NB3.6 to NB4.0 and now I have a question about how
NB4.0 handles classpaths. In NB3.6 I used "getClass().getResource()" to
build the URL to a couple of images I needed to load. In NB3.6 I was
able to place the images inside the Jar or in the same directory ...

We are going to develop a web based application that uses Oracle 9i
database at the beckend. We started with Oracle JDeveloper 10g. It
seems fine but it fails to meet our needs at some points. Can you
recommend another tool for us?