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Get the Head First book.

I use the getting things done method.

Wait a sec - there is a difference between creating an object and persisting an object. I think it's been illustrated here. Using the constructor to create an object is a pretty standard usage. I'll second the idea of not persisting an object in a constructor. Give the developer the control...

how abotu the local software firewall on the computer - is that allowing connections to your port? Can you at least ping the ip.address?

as much as that helps me it's a very anti-social solution and could lead to trouble *shrug* i ended up leaving the company :)

If you only have a date then you can't get the timezone unless there is another field with it on the database table. The only other way is to do a lookup to another database. Or another way is to have a string datatype with the ISO version of date time. That version of date time contains...

easy boys

Look at Jakarta Tag Lib stuff http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/string-doc/string-1.1.0/index.html Download the Tag Lib (and associated libraries it requires) and place it in your /lib files directory for your project. Add a line in your web.xml that looks like the lines pointing to the...

Ok - this is JSP It looks like that perl code is building a hyperlink. Java the language itself doesn't have a function that will do what you want but you can write one. There's a number of different ways to do what you want to do.. JSP can be used a number of different ways as well...

Fishi - are you writing JSP?

That means that Eclipse has parsed your code and found that you are not catching an exception that the compiler will expect you to catch. This is a nice feature because it will notify you of code that will break before you try and compile it. To fix this you can highlight the code and use the...

Danny, Sun has some attempts at this. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaOS

My answer wasn't a knock against you dmazz. Not sure how you even took it as a negative comment? I broadened my answer from "no you can't reuse perl scripts" to one that could encourage you to "re-use your skills" in the java world. :)

I would have each User associated with a UserProfile object. The UserProfile object will contain ViewSettings. You can then pass the ViewSettings object into the instance of the form or page on loadtime. When the page loads it will use the ViewSettings to manipulate it's display to the user...

Of course, These default constants will be in some XML/PROPERTIES file. Load them into a global object and then get/set them as necessary. Make sure that you always go to the global object for parameters when needed instead of caching them in other objects. I'm not super familiar with app...