You don't actually have to go to all that trouble, though...


int val = Integer.parseInt(str, 2);
float f = Float.intBitsToFloat(val);

Oh the positioning -- I think that's just because you're not actually calling the initialize() method, isn't it?

There's nothing wrong with it per se -- it's a very powerful component -- but it's not designed for what you're trying to do. It is designed for cases where you want to run code in some arbitrary...

By the way, you should be very wary of just making your program call Runtime.exec() and "sitting back and relaxing": if the other process logs anything out (to either the standard output or error...

Difficult to wade through this code, but general recommendations to start finding the problems:
- if you're subclassing things like Ellipse2D, don't spuriously have extra variables like 'x', 'y'...

I think the way you're storing things is a little bit odd, and that's tying you in knots. You've declared variables that duplicate one another: on the one hand, you've got the separate 'day',...

String.split() really can help you out, I think. If I understand rightly, the thing you're dissatisfied with is that the suggestion strips off the terminating punctuation from the strings. The...

OK, so in this specific example, absolutely any sequence of bytes can be a valid string. So when you read a string from the file-- I assume you're thinking of one "string" per line, so you'd...

An important thing to understand is that there are two types of exceptions:

checked exceptions, which are thrown when your code (or some code in the Java libraries) explicitly throws them; in...