... 98 Factory methods should be considered as an alternative to constructors - mostly when constructo...

... 98 You create a form with hidden inputs that hold the values to be posted, set the action of the f...

I am trying to understand more about java, especially about memory management and threads. For this reason I have recently found interest in looking at thread dumps. ...

I want to copy files from one directory to another (subdirectory) using Java. I have a directory, dir, with text files. I iterate over the first 20 files in dir, and want to copy them to another directory in the dir directory, which I have created right before the iteration. In the code, I want to c...

I have heard that the Java implementation of Generics is not as good as the C# implementation. In that the syntax looks similar, what is it that is substandard about the Java implementation, or is it a religious point of view? ...

...is primarily just curiosity, but are there any OCR implementations in pure Java? I'm curious how this would perform purely in Java, and OCR in general interests me, so I'd love to see how it's implemented in a language I thoroughly understand. Naturally, this would require that the implementation is...

What is the purpose of annotations in Java? I have this fuzzy idea of them as somewhere in between a comment and actual code. Do they affect the program at run time? ...

...lade's answer of locking the file is also a good one. However, it requires Java 6 (I think). – Anthony Cramp Oct 1 '08 at 23:35 ...

...ese ways: (source: viralpatel.net) 1- JSmooth .exe wrapper: JSmooth is a Java Executable Wrapper. It creates native Windows launchers (standard .exe) for your java applications. It makes java deployment much smoother and user-friendly, as it is able to find any installed Java VM by itself. When no...

... You can't. In Java there is no concept of a subpackage, so odp.proj and odp.proj.test are completely separate packages. share | improve t...