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Question: I want my RMI server application to populate a java.awt.List with data on the client with a method invocation. What’s the best way to do this? Answer: When writing

Question: Is there a Java equivalent class or method for the Unix Internet address manipulation routines like inet_ntoa()? Answer: Java does not have direct analogs for the inet functions that

Question: I have a CAB file produced by Wise Installation System 7.0 that contains an application setup.exe. I need to create an HTML file that will download the CAB file.

A function try block is a function whose body consists of a try block with its associated handlers (catch-statements). A function try block is probably most often used in a

A function can specify explicitly what type of exception it may throw. An exception specification, however, is not checked at compile time, but rather at run time: class X {};int

When placing JButtons in the JToolBar, use gif icons that are 25 x 25 pixels. Then create a ToolButton class that sets the insets to zero so that the buttons

For quick Java development, consider using MicroEdge’s Visual SlickEdit (http://www.slickedit.com) instead of an IDE. It recognizes and highlights Java keywords and inserts braces and indents code correctly. To make it

C and C++ programmers are accustomed to using the atoi() function to convert strings to numeric integer values. Although Java doesn’t have an atoi() method, it provides the same capability

Although Java does not provide a destructor as in C++, you can use an overridden finalize() method for similar purposes. The overridden finalize() method is invoked on an object before