no company gives a rookie a project to run on his own.
no company gives anyone a project with no specs except "we want an online examination system".
no company would give that rookie a deadline of...

What does this have to do with JSP anyway?

guess what, you never fill the array from which the dropdown is filled...

What exactly "isn't happening"?
Check the generated html. Is the data there but isn't it shown?
If it is your html generation is at fault. If it isn't, you are almost certainly having an error in a...

A Google program won't ever be able to block Google ads, which are most of the ads on the 'net, so an adblocker in it won't be functional.

I wonder, does it even allow you to access competing...

I won't touch anything created by Google. It's all spyware.
Anyway, the first 2 security leaks have already been identified in it. Rather quick, only a few hours after release...

says it all. Toplink can't find the jdbc driver for the database you're telling it to use.
Supply the driver and you'll get another error (or it might even work if everything else is correct).

they shouldn't, but that doesn't mean they don't...
It all depends on how the website was programmed.

nope. Discoverer reports are the same for everyone who has access to them.

you never add the menubar to the window...

the main prophet for profit is the current prophet of Doom: Al Gore.
There's also a messiah for profit: Obama.

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...

in fact police agencies the world over have been doing that since ancient times...

but what the heck does this have to do with JSP?
DSN is an ODBC concept, and has no relation to Java whatsoever.
It's also an utterly outdated concept for for example .NET.

and of course you should not do anything except displaying the results from a JSP.

There's a Java category in the list of categories of items when you connect to a database.

if it says it doesn't exist, it doesn't exist. So you're missing those classes or don't have them in the right place.
NEVER try to second-guess error messages, they're correct (if sometimes a bit...

That's his worst problem, but not the immediate one.
The immediate one is failing to take into consideration the requirement to add the application classes to the classpath he uses to attempt to run...

VB is a mess. In fact anything that mixes display logic with business logic is a mess...
At least in Java you will be eased into doing things the right way, in VB that's almost impossible.

write a thesis about why it's irresponsible to use VB for serious software development, and submit that with a C# application :)

There is a pretty decent book "C# for Java programmers" that...

that's one bad JSP. Scriptlets, no proper headers, etc. etc.

an even simpler solution is to check the timestamps on posts before replying to them...

says it all. You don't have permission to read that file.

by reading the tutorials that come with it and the JEE distribution from Sun.

It's also no longer supported, and I think not even Y2K compliant in places.
There is NO reason to use it.

and don't revive old dead threads to post nonsense "solutions".

Almost ALL schoolkids think their school is bad because it doesn't let them do what they want to do.

If you're bright you'll recognise that what most kids want to do is anything BUT schoolwork so...

and it seems the kid also misses a basic understanding of classpaths, server configuration, and a lot of other things quite apart from not knowing Java and having the terribly bad idea of using...

We still have some customers on Oracle 9i, but we're no longer taking any new contracts for it (and haven't for quite some time).
New contracts taken only for 10g and 11g (preferred) unless it's a...

what does it ask? It asks you where your JRE is.
What should you do? GUESS!

What's wrong with Sumerian, Egyptian, and Greek?

kid's still insisting on doing database access from JSP.
Maybe if it would stop trying that it would get somewhere...

I've actually had that reported as a bug in our software on more than one occasion (of course not worded like that, the truth only comes out when questioning past the "it doesn't work" stage).

And...

good of them to do that. Those drugs have longterm negative effects on health, are illegal to use without a prescription (and thus if those kids use them they ARE committing a crime and so probably...

if the kid's too lazy to prepare for his interview, he doesn't deserve the job and WILL fail in it if he does get it.

I'm doing a bit of Oracle ADF, quite nice.

use a regular expression to search for any unwanted characters and return an error if any are found.

do your own input validation. Relying on Exceptions being thrown on bad input is usually not a good idea.

yup. At least 2 ways.
1) generate a bitmap using something like JFreeChart from a servlet that you link to through an image tag.
2) generate it as text using some CSS magic to make it look nice.

set up a KeyListener to it which refuses to allow anything you don't want.