March 20, 1997

Question: How do I use the .net classes to log on to a mailserver and request, say, the number of new mailmessages? Or send a message?Just POP3/SMTP. An example would

Question: What is the purpose of the Thread.interrupt()method? I expect that if I call the interrupt()method of a sleeping thread, anInterruptedException will be thrown. Here is aquick code sample showing

Question: I am new to Java and am currently trying toassociate idioms and techniques from otherlanguages/environments with like capabilities inJava. Specifically, I am trying to determine howto perform inter-thread and

Question: I am trying to create a Java routine to play an .au file whenit starts up (I want to then add this as a startup to my Web page).I

Question: I am trying to write a Java applet which canretrieve data from the user and then write itto a file on the server. Unfortunately I do nothave the access

Question: How do you calculate sqrt()? Answer: Of course the best way to compute square roots is to useMath.sqrt(),but I assume your question is academic. I’m not sure of the

Question: How can I append to a file in Java?The file is ASCII. It exists. The program hasrights to the file. I just need to add to the endof the

Question: Is it possible to launch another application from aJava application (not an applet)? Answer: Yes. There are two classes of interest for performingsystem level functions such as this: java.lang.Runtime

Question: I want a copy of an instance not a reference, e.g.(Image). Iknow of the clone method, but not many classes have it. Along those lines,does Java pass objects to