Tip Bank

Question: How can I run a Java server application as an NT service? Answer: You can run a Java server appliation as an NT service if you use theMicrosoft SDK

Question: Is there anyway with java to get a file’s date? Answer: Unfortunately, there seems to be no platform-independent way of doing this.The lastModified() method in java.io.File returns a system

Question: How can I implement a “default” button in a window? Answer: You can explicitly request the focus using requestFocus(), but thebutton can still lose the focus. Therefore you have

Question: How can I set the icon image for a java.awt.Dialog like you can fora java.awt.Frame using setIconImage? Answer: Unfortunately you cannot do this. A Dialog inherits the icon of

Question: Is there a way to open a file for writing in append mode? Answer: The FileOutputStream and FileWriter classes both have constructors thatwith the following signature (String, boolean). The

Question: I need to find a way to yield the CPU (for x amount of time) from one event to process another event (for x amount of time) in the

Question: I’m reading a book on Java 1.1 that refers to various classesthat do not exist in Microsoft Visual J++ Professional Edition,Version 1.1, which apparently installs V1.02 libraries. How canI

Question: I am trying to create a class that can be given the pointer to a structure. The class has other means to know what goes into the structure, but

This routine parses a string and returns an equivalent string where all the instances of a given substring are doubled. This is especially useful for doubling quotes within SQL statements