Java Time Zone is messed up *

Question I am running a Tomcat application, and I need to display some time values. Unfortunately, the time is coming up an hour off. I lo...

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Eclipse on win64 *

Question Is anyone successfully using the latest 64-bit Ganymede release of Eclipse on Windows XP or Vista 64-bit? Currently I run the ...

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Automate builds for Java RCP for deployment with JNLP *

Question I've found many sources that talk about the automated Eclipse PDE process. I feel these sources don't do a good job explai...

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Is there a real benefit of using J#? *

Question I just saw a comment of suggesting J# , and it made me wonder... is there a real, beneficial use of J# over Java? So, my feeling i...

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Why can't I use a try block around my super() call? *

Question So, in Java, the first line of your constructor HAS to be a call to super... be it implicitly calling super(), or explicitly callin...

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Accessing post variables using Java Servlets *

Question All I really want is the equivalent of PHP's $_POST[], and after searching the web for an hour, I'm still nowhere closer. ...

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Is this really widening vs autoboxing? *

Question I saw this in an answer to another question , in reference to shortcomings of the java spec: There are more shortcomings and ...

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How can I Java webstart multiple, dependent, native libraries? *

Question Example: I have two shared objects (same should apply to .dlls). The first shared object is from a third-party library, we'll c...

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Why doesn't Java autoboxing extend to method invocations of methods of the autoboxed types? *

Question I want to convert a primitive to a string, and I tried: myInt.toString(); This fails with the error: int cannot be derefe...

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How do I use Java to read from a file that is actively being written? *

Question I have an application that writes information to file. This information is used post-execution to determine pass/failure/correctnes...

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What code analysis tools do you use for your Java projects? *

Question What code analysis tools do you use on your Java projects? I am interested in all kinds static code analysis tools (FindBug...

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IllegalArgumentException or NullPointerException for a null parameter? *

Question I have a simple setter method for a property and null is not appropriate for this particular property. I have always been torn in ...

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How do I configure and communicate with a serial port? *

Question I need to send and receive data over serial connections (RS-232 and RS-422). How do I set up and communicate with such a conne...

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What are the different methods to parse strings in Java? *

Question For parsing player commands, I've most often used the split method to split a string by delimiters and then to then just figur...

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Creating a custom button in Java *

Question Is there a way to create a JButton with your own button graphic and not just with an image inside the button? If not, is there a...

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What is the difference between an int and an Integer in Java and C#? *

Question I was just sitting at my local Borders sipping coffee and reading More Joel on Software (for free) when I came across Joel Spolsk...

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What is the meaning of the type safety warning in certain Java generics casts? *

Question What is the meaning of the Java warning? Type safety: The cast from Object to List is actually checking against the erased ty...

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How would you access Object properties from within an object method? *

Question What is the "purist" or "correct" way to access an object's properties from within an object method that is...

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Java lib or app to convert CSV to XML file? *

Question Is there an existing application or library in Java which will allow me to convert a CSV data file to XML file? The XML tags wo...

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