There is one from ORO Inc. They dissolved as a corporation, but one of the founders maintains the software at http://www.quateams.com/oro. And don't forget to check out Lava -- a set of Java classes designed to support programmers who develop console-mode applications and/or C programmers who are converting to Java. The first release of Lava has printf and other text formatting, encryption, parsing and miscellaneous I/O. Lava can be downloaded from http://www.newbie.

It is the Java list of Infrequently Answered Questions, a FAQ maintained by Peter Norvig, author of the book "Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach". Take a look at the Java IFAQ at http://www.norvig.com/java-iaq.html There's a lot of good information in that document.

Take a look at GraphMaker -- a complete full-featured Java application for creating and searching graphs. It is available under GPL with source, and uses the latest Swing JFC features. Find it with a websearch.

Public spirited programmer and Java supporter Dean S. Jones has created a collection of over 100 icons for use in Java technology freeware. They are available on the Java Lobby site at http://www.javalobby.org.

A jolly little song that explains how to solve commonly-encountered problems in Java. The FAQ Melody by Antranig Basman. On the First Day of Christmas, my true-love said to me: Read the F-A-Q. On the Second Day of Christmas, my true-love said to me: My Image isn't drawing; Read the F-A-Q. On the Third Day of Christmas, my true-love said to me: My Pixels are not grabbing, My Image isn't drawing, Read the F-A-Q.

Please see the site http://hem.passagen.se/carebear/fraggame.htm which has the Frag Island game (a quake-style game) written in 100% Java. You play it as an applet, by browsing the above site. If you do it at work, watch out -- it's noisy!

Take a look at the Java Collection Framework, a group of classes that are part of Java 1.2. These classes implement general-purpose data structures, and they will become widely used. Standard interfaces representing data structures of various kinds for you to implement. Since these are interfaces, you can use them in your code before you have implemented them. The standard interfaces are Collection, Set, List and Map, plus the more specialised SortedSet and SortedMap.

In the June 1999 JavaOne conference, Palm Pilot V's were available with a small JVM known as KJava installed on them. KJava was an early access release, and is expected to become generally available later in 1999. This is an astonishing piece of work as the Pilot has such a small memory footprint. There is a Java-PalmPilot Project called "jSyncManager" which allows PalmPilot synchronization and jConduit development in pure Java. See http://yaztromo.idirect.com/java-pilot.html.

PDF (Portable Document Format) is the text publishing format defined by Adobe. Acrobat is the technology to display and print PDF files. Adobe supplies the client (document reading) software for free. There is a PDF toolkit written in the Java programming language at http://www.etymon.com. Even better it is GPL'd. It is more a toolkit for programmers embedding PDF in their products, than an end-user technology though. It doesn't have a GUI for displaying PDF for example.

If the JVM takes about 15MB (say) in overhead, and a program takes 3MB, then starting up a fresh JVM for each program is slow and wasteful. If a single copy of the JVM and libraries could instead be shared among multiple Java applications there would be less overhead and everything would run faster. That observation was the guiding force behind the echidna project to support a JVM that could run multiple applications. See the site http://www.javagroup.org/echidna/ for more details.

Java programmer Jason Shattu has released Java2HTML Tool which is a simple-to-use tool which converts Java Source Code into colorized and browsable HTML. You can find the details at http://www.vaegar.f9.co.uk/java2html.html The Java2HTML tool has many features, and was JARS rated in the top 25%. Take a look and check it out for yourself!

Jazilla is Mozilla (Netscape Communicator free source) ported to Java. In other words, a free source browser that supports Java programming language and Javascript, written in the Java programming language! You can get more information, and volunteer to help with the project at http://www.jazilla.sourceforge.net/

Dippy Bird is Java documentation in WinHelp format, which can be used directly on Windows desktops, and has a searching utility. The developer of the Dippybird project, Bill Bercik, has stopped further work on the project due to lack of time and funds. Instead you can use You may be able to get the Dippy Bird download if you can find it with a web search. Note that on NT 4.0 you need to change the generated shortcut to point to NT's 32-bit WinHelp.

UML is the Unified Modeling Language. It is unified in the sense that it draws together ideas from a couple of earlier software design languages. UML is an emerging standard for diagrams of object-oriented classes. It was devised by Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobsen, and James Rumbaugh, and it unifies several popular existing notations. A UML product is available from Rational Software, who are the biggest people behind UML, and who also offer a tutorial CD for free. See http://www.rational.

Back to the top 2.19 How come I don't see any files from chrome: urls? When the Debug->Exclude Browser Files menu item is checked, all files from chrome: urls will be removed from the Loaded Scripts view, and Venkman will not debug them. If you want to debug them, uncheck this menu item. Back to the top 2.

Invalid expression with no value! It is because if-statement does not return any value. Can you assign it to anything? NONE!!

No. This precludes some searches, but didn't seem essential for the anticipated audience of LcdBible.

Most Schemes come with built-in support for regular expression matching using the same regular expression syntax found in languages such as Perl and Javascript. For Schemes that lack such facilities but have an FFI (see here), it is possible to access native-language regular expression libraries that are freely available for most languages.

This can be quite useful especially for redundant tasks. It is up to you to take the foundation of anything and expand its consciousness:) The above works providing what experiment and learn.

So that means at this time you are now able to alter text on a specific line basis, add text before a specific line or after a specific line.

Regular expression filters take a bit of getting used to, but here is a basic outline and some more common examples below that you may like to use yourself.

Quite a lot of languages compile to Java bytecode, more than 60 at the last count. See the webpage http://grunge.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguages.html See www.distinct.com. It implements a subset of RPC, and is a commercial, supported product. You can review RFCs 1831 and 1832 for information on the full protocol. Java programming language uses the same endianness as RPC's external data representation (network byte order), so all the Java technology file reads/writes can be used directly.

Yes. See http://www.mindspring.com/~chroma/docwiz for a Java development tool called DocWiz. It is the easiest way to add JavaDoc comments to your code.

The JaWavedit java code lets you edit .wav and .au files. It can be found at http://www.bome.com/JaWavedit/. It's free to use. If you are inspired to write freeware like this yourself, many file formats are explained and described at http://www.wotsit.org

The ~ operator does regular-expression matching, and ~* does case-insensitive regular-expression matching. There is no case-insensitive variant of the LIKE operator, but you can get the effect of case-insensitive LIKE with this: WHERE lower(textfield) LIKE lower(pattern)

Use bytes, shorts, chars, ints or longs if you need to manipulate no more than 64 bits at once. Use ~ for NOT, & for AND, | for OR, and ^ for XOR. Beware that the precedence for & | and ^ is not intuitive; they have lower precedence than == and !=, so you must write: if ((a & 1) == 1) rather than: if (a & 1 == 1) You can also shift bits with the <<, >> and >>> operators; >> is a signed shift and >>> is an unsigned shift.

The "Transform backslash expressions" option allows using \n and \r but that option does not work with regular expressions.

First of all, if you do not know the basics of regular expression, do not attempt to use this feature. You can very easily mess things up. Don't say I didn't warn you because I just did.