The code the IDE produces definitely leaves something to be desired, so I guess it comes down to how fast you need to get the design done. I am sure with practice what I am trying to do now would be...

I have been there and back and that helps me a little but I guess I was looking for some mildly more complicated examples. I am having a tough time wrapping my head around all of the options...

Can anyone suggest any resources that could help me learn Java GUI creation? I have been working on a lab assignment where we need to copy the Google Kitchen Sink example and my biggest problem has...

I am new to using swing and I am trying to find a good way to organize a window with multiple tabs. I have found the info on Sun's website but I still need to manipulate the positions and alignments...

Check the java.io package APIs, and go here for a tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/index.html

Still could use help. Here are the tomcat logs as well:

omcat log follows:
Nov 13, 2008 12:03:11 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet...

I could still use some help. Now my error seems to be related to the area when I attempt to assign the crs.getMetaData() to a ResultSet. Am I using incompatible types or is it the way I declared...

well I hardcoded it and now it loads the database, but now my getPost method is crashing. Yeah!

I am using Tomcat as a server to work on a servlet that need to access a database and I need to use CachedRowSet, but I cannot seem to connect to the database correctly.

Currently I have
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Figured it out. Thanks to all who responded.

OK, I am still having trouble with this. All I want right now is to get something to work so I am going small. I am accessing a books database that consists of three tables, and all I want is to...

Disregard this post- I realized just as I submitted it that I had the new names in the wrong spots so I was never finding the correct entry in the table. Thanks.

//modify existing author info
public void ModifyAuthorInfo() throws SQLException {

String authorsFirstName, authorsLastName, newFirstName, newLastName;

modifyAuthor =...

I am taking a web design and development class and we have been thrown into MySQL along with java without much knowledge beforehand. Was wondering if anyone could help me with understanding how to...

I am taking a web design and development class and we have been thrown into MySQL along with java without much knowledge beforehand. Was wondering if anyone could help me with understanding how to...

Thanks for the help but don't worry about it. I think it had something to do with way the code was formatted in the email as I just retyped it in a new text document and recompiled with no issues.

I have a bit of code my instructor sent me as an example to look at and it is giving me approx 100 errors when I compile it all of the form 'illegal character: \172' or 'illegal character: \8224'.
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Going to Portland Community College to finish up prereqs, and to be honest the majority of my programming experience has been with C++.

I am currently going to school for a CS degree and I was wondering what people would recommend doing to keep my programming skills up to date. I can only take about 2 classes a term and some of...