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 only way in pure Java to create globally unique ids is to set up a server, accessible by all interested parties, which supplies the ids. There are classes in Java which may supply 'probably' unique ids, with varying levels of reliability --- but a dual processor machine with two JVMs running could easily generate duplicate ids. Note that a global server issuing a token (and periodic "are you still using it" messages) is a pretty good way to do cooperative file locking too. See similar questions...

Bit manipulation is straightforward in C, and commonly done. See similar questions...

Package names are guaranteed uniqueness by using the Internet domain name in reverse order: com.javasoft.jag - the "com" or "edu" (etc.) part used to be in upper case, but now lower case is the recommendation. Class and interface names are descriptive nouns, with the first letter of each word capitalized: PolarCoords. Interfaces are often called "something-able", e.g. "Observable", "Runnable", "Sortable". See similar questions...

JDK 1.2 has System.setProperty( "property", "new value" ); Until then, you can get all the properties, and set just the one you want with code like this: System.getProperties().put("property", "new value" ); See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

There are several ways. The most straightforward is: String myString = numString.trim(); int i = Integer.parseInt(myString); long l = Long.parseLong(myString) or String myString = numString.trim(); i = Integer.parseInt(myString,myIntRadix); Note 1: There is a gotcha with parseInt - it will throw a NumberFormatException for String values in the range "80000000" to "ffffffff". You might expect it to interpret them as negative, but it does not. The values have to be "-80000000" . See similar questions...

Try any of these: String s = String.valueOf(i); or String s = Integer.toString(i); or String s = Integer.toString(i, radix); or // briefer but may result in extra object allocation. String s = "" + i; Note: There are similar classes for Double, Float, Long, etc. See similar questions...

Use Runtime.getRuntime().exec( myCommandString ) where myCommandString is something like "/full/pathname/command". An applet will need to be signed in order to allow this. If the pathname contains spaces, e.g. "c:\program files\windows\notepad", then enclose it in quotes within the quoted string. Or pre-tokenize them into elements of an array and call exec(String[] cmd) instead of exec(String cmd). From JDK1.3 there are two new overloaded Runtime.exec() methods. See similar questions...

Look at the code below, submitted by expert programmer John Dumas. It uses serialization to write an object into a byte array, and reads it back to reconstitute a fresh copy. This is a clever hack! import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.ObjectOutputStream; import java.io. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

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. See similar questions...

Code like this seems to show that the calls don't work! String s = " hello "; s.trim(); s.toUpperCase(); Note again that Strings are immutable. This means that once a String has been initialized, its contents won't change. In the code above, the method calls return a different String with the desired alterations. But this new String is not assigned to anything, so the results are discarded. To see the changes, assign the results of the method call to the original String or to another String. See similar questions...

You can print the hex equivalent of an int with: int i = 0xf1; System.out.println("i is hex " + Integer.toHexString(i) ); See similar questions...

Simple answer: use a "callback". Make the parameter an interface and pass an argument instance that implements that interface. public interface CallShow { public void Show( ); } public class ShowOff implements CallShow { public void Show( ) { .... } public class ShowOff2 implements CallShow { public void Show( ) { .... } public class UseShow { CallShow savecallthis; UseShow( CallShow withthis ) { savecallthis = withthis; } void ReadyToShow( ) { savecallthis. See similar questions...

This solution works on Unix platforms using either JDK 1.0.2, or JDK 1.1. The trick is to use an array of Strings for the command line: String[] command = {"/bin/sh", "-c", "/bin/ls > out.dat"}; If you don't do this, and simply use a single string, the shell will see the -c and /bin/ls and ignore everything else after that. It only expects a single argument after the -c. import java.io.*; import java.util. See similar questions...

The reason is that many of the DOS commands are not individual programs, but merely "functions" of command.com. There is no DIR.EXE or COPY.EXE for example. Instead, one executes the command processor (shell) explicitly with a request to perform the built-in command, like so: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("command.com /c dir") for example. On NT, the command interpreter is "cmd.exe", so the statement would be Runtime.getRuntime(). See similar questions...

above (18.8, 18.9), adjusted like this: BufferedReader pOut= new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream())); try { String s = pOut.readLine(); while (s != null) { System.out.println(s); s = pOut.readLine(); } } catch (IOException e) { } Another possibility is to read chunks of whatever length as they come in: ... p = r.exec(cmd); InputStream is = p.getInputStream(); int len; byte buf[] = new byte[1000]; try { while( (len = is. See similar questions...

This code is from the 1.0 AWT, and the programmer was probably pretty skilled. public synchronized void layout() { LayoutManager layoutMgr = this.layoutMgr; if (layoutMgr != null) { layoutMgr.layoutContainer(this); } } The code makes a local copy of a global variable for one or both of two reasons. The first reason is that accessing local variables can be faster than accessing (non final) member variables. It's good for loops or where there are many references in the source. See similar questions...