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Implement Catch All Blocks for Robustness

You can use Throwable class in catch block to catchall kinds of exceptions. This class is the base classof all errors and exceptions in the Java language. You can use

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Overhead of Using Inner Classes

An interesting situation with method call overhead arises when you use inner classes. The inner class specification says that a private method of a class A can be used by

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Visual FoxPro 6

Question: With an application compiled into an EXE, why when I select 1 topic, enter into it, and exit do I get booted out of FoxPro to the main Windows

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Using the VFP Grid Without Bound Data

Question: Is there anything similar to the “Microsoft grid control” in Visual Basic that just displays a grid and does not bind data from a table? Answer: You could use

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Threading and SimpleDateFormat

Question: Is SimpleDateFormat threadsafe? I am trying totrack down a bug where a date formatted “yyyy-MM-dd” actually came outas 2000-06-0001. I have four threads accessing the format method ofmy date

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Client Caching of Java Server Pages

Question: When I redirect a request from a Servlet to a JSP, the browsercaches the JSP and won’t display an updated page without reloading.How do I prevent the page from

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NT Admin

Question: Can I move 600+ users from a standalone server to a PDC with all rights and information intact, without having to recreate the users on the PDC? Answer: Well,

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Database Property

Question: How do I programmatically change the database property of Forms so that I can put my data files anywhere? Answer: You can set the database properties of cursors in

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ADO with Stored Procedures

Question: How do I get both output parameters and output recordsets from the SQL7 stored procedures I call from ASP via the ADO command object? Answer: It is possible to