the madness stops when the last mad person (aka homework kiddo) dies a slow, painful, death.

And that won't happen as long as there are idiots who give those homework kiddos what they want.

your teacher can teach just fine. But you're too stupid or lazy to learn.

what is a brain?
what is a search engine?

The garbage collector is very smart. There's hardly ever a need to use the provided commands to SUGGEST it runs.
If you think you need to, you almost certainly have an error somewhere in your code...

yah. It's no different in customer support. Customers flag every single issue as critical, with the inevitable result that we stop looking at that flag and determine ourselves what's important...

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
JFileChooser fileChooser = new JFileChooser(".");
int status = fileChooser.showOpenDialog(screen);
...

yes, anything to which there are no more references will be deleted by the garbage collector at some point. No need to keep track of that yourself and do things like malloc, calloc, and realloc.

and giving an answer that's incorrect too...

J2E doesn't exist. And if it did exist there would be no "best" book for it, but a series of books, each with its own pros and cons.

do you mean Java the language or Java the platform?

Java the language is smaller than the JSE (or Java the platform) which consists of the language + the standard libraries + the runtime...

and oh, get into the habbit of always using packages for everything.
It may not be required by the language spec (an omission which by many is considered a major historical flaw in the language) but...

who do you think? It's lardmeister, the guy's on a personal vendetta against me after I deleted a post in which he called me a Nazi and a personal friend of Heinrich Himmler...

one word of caution: don't trust anything you read in Herb's book unless and until you find it confirmed elsewhere.
It's not all bad, but there is a large number of glaring errors caused by his...

why are you printing the count inside the loop?
why are you not doing anything with the returnvalue of the method?

and don't use Eclipse or any other IDE until you know the language. Those things...

File file = new File(directory);
if (!file.isFile) {
FilenameFilter filter = .... // that's for you to figure out
String[] files = file.list(filter);
... // now do something with...

just build a random project idea generator.
There seems to be a big demand for those, given the number of times each week we get this exact question in only slightly different wording.

and now you put that into code.
And when you've done that and it actually works (instead of pasting something you pilfered out of a newsgroup or website without actually seeing if it does anything...

Not in my experience. People end up learning the tool instead of the language and are utterly lost when that tool isn't available to them in the exact same version and configuration at a later date....

but don't go that way. Learn about proper Object Oriented design rather than trying to use Java as if it were a procedural language.

I could tell you a lot about that, but can't because of contractual obligations.
My work involves (among other things) maintaining a piece of software that generates analysis charts from streaming...

where do you change orderNum in order to ever leave the recursion?

Don't do other kids' homework for them, it only leads to stupid lazy people gaining diplomas.

You should be with your nose in your books rather than surfing the web.

You seem to have no concept of English at all yet think you're perfectly capable of reading it and judging others in their skills.

Go back to school little kiddie, and pay attention in classes for...

I don't use diagrams (especially implementation diagrams like class diagrams) that ridigly.

They're great for visualising concepts and planning things, but don't see them as the final product....

A class diagram has no direct relationship to the usecase diagrams.

A single usecase may use classes from several class diagrams (typically you'd have one class diagram per package for example,...

any code you write during office hours belongs to the company, not just complex code.
Depending on your contract (and legal conditions in your locale) they could even claim that any code you write...

Java is case sensitive, keep that in mind.

Standard convention is to use CamelCase for everything except constants.
ClassNames start with a capital letter, and have every First Character of Every...

You could test it of course by setting something in one program, then running another program to check whether that setting is still there :)

My GUESS is that they do persist, as the call can be...

ask specific questions, don't ask people to do your homework.
If you're stuck post what you have and tell where you're stumped so people can direct you towards a solution (they may not even give you...