If this is not the correct newgroup for this could you point me in the
correct direction, otherwise....here is the question.
Jave uses a JVM. Why can't compilers be build for Java at least on the
popular CPU's?

I'm looking for a way to externalize the flow of a j2ee application.
What I mean is that if traditionally, I'd write a flow of some
functionality by having methods calling each other, then I'm looking
for some declerative (xml) way of doing that.  So that the flow can be

Can anyone recommend a good parser generator for Java?
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I'm a Newbie to Eclipse trying to get my feet wet.
I downloaded eclipse 3.0.1, set my JAVA_HOME path to C:\j2sdk1.4.2_07,
and ran my eclipse from c:\eclipse\eclipse.exe.
Everything is working fine for the main IDE. My problem is when I click

I am new to jasper reports as well as to java. I just downloaded JDK,
JDBC, jasper reports for generating reports. Now I want to know that
what else I require to start generating reports.
Also I need to get data from database and generate reports using it.

could you please tell me/give me some tutorials on how to compile a GUI
JAVA application created in netabeans as a stand alone application. i
created a GUI application using netbeans by inheriting JFrame class but i
can't figure out on how to compile it where in it will create a  ...

i am getting an error while modifying the startup.bat in tomcat
set JAVA_HOME= e:\java\jdk\bin\
set CATALINA_HOME=..
windows can not find -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false.make sure u typed

I suppose that question has been already posted before but I don't find a tool that answered my need.
I would like to clean my code by looking for unused methods -in particular in interfaces- and unused classes even they are public.
Do you know if some tools (free or commercial) ...

I erased eclipse 2.1.2 and reinstalled it to another drive,
on w2kpro system.
Now I can't get help working.
When I invoke help, window appears, but without contetnt.

We are currently dealing with a huge code base of generated Java.
The translation tool produces suboptimal Java in sevaral aspects.
Any information about Java code analysis and transformation tools
that are able to enhance the code in the aspects listed below would be

After enabling the auto update facility I was getting frequent update
notifications. So I just selected the latest features from the available
list and installed them, without any problems. But now I get the "an error
occurred. See the log file" on startup. I suspect there is some ...

Hi can you say me how to make an .exe file that launch a java file?
Thanks Alessio

I just started using Eclipse. Very quickly I hit a problem. I started what I thought was a
new project, but it ended up in a workspace that I thought I was no longer using. So I
selected the old (toy test) project in the workspace browser and deleted it. I got a
question about ...

We at our current project have a reporting system based on oracle
reports.  We convert the reports into pdf format to display on line.
We want to move away from oracle reports to some java based reporting
system which can generate pdf files on the fly.