October 12, 2002

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Outputting Currencies

How to print out a Currency in Java is an often overlooked topic. How should Currency be printed out in an international, standardized way?The java.text.NumberFormat class is used for outputting

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Copy Data from One File to Another

This wrapper class “FileCopier” copies data from one file to another. This class uses another class: “StreamCopier”. /** * Class: FileCopier * Author: Vivek Bagade * Date: 8/31/2001 * Description:

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Generate Thumbnails Out of a Larger Image

This is useful in a Web-based Photo Gallery kind of application, where you need to automatically generate multiple sizes of the same image. class ThumbnailGenerator { public void generateThumbnail (String

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A Cleaner Way of Doing String Comparison

If you have a method into which you pass a String parameter that you compare with another string then: void foo( String str ){ String CONST_STR = “bar”; // DON’T