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Question: How can I make my Java application install its own colormap? Answer: The ability to allow a Java application to install its own colormap is not supported by the

Question: I would like to add an icon to the header of a column of a JTable indicating the direction the column is currently sorted. Answer: It can be pretty

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

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