Posts by jwenting

there are no simple strut applications.

no, you don't want to do that.

no, we're not going to do your work for you.
If you're too lazy to do a bit of research or too stupid to understand what some simple tutorials tell you, you shouldn't have that job (or be signed up in that course) and deserve to fail.

Ronald Reagan for president!
He's a better president dead than either of the current candidates will ever be alive.

and the part about doing your own homework (which includes thinking for yourself, which includes thinking up your own project ideas if that's asked of you).

still waiting for that random project title generator...
Write it and you'll never have to ask others to do your thinking for you (at least as far as thinking up project titles is concerned).

yes, your teacher and the books and other course material he gave you or told you to buy to study.

so you want someone here to write in a forum post the entire content of dozens of thick books, and decades of experience by hundreds of talented professionals?

If you've really been at it for 16 years you'd know how to get such information.
If not (as I suspect) you're just another schoolkid trying to trick us into doing his homework for him and we're not falling for that.

you had to create an account just to insult people?

Or are you someone who doesn't want to get another of his accounts banned and decided to create another one to insult people?

nope. Obama isn't black. And there are a lot of non-black Muslims as well as a lot of black non-Muslims.

But Obama was born a Muslim, and never abdicated his religion (not that Islam even allows that, he'd have a fatwah on his head if he had and that would have been all over the news).
His goals are clear. Surrender Iraq to the fundamentalists, treat the mullahs in Iran as friends while declaring effective war on Israel who have been the only trustworthy country in the Middle East since the founding of the Jewish state.

and you'd need to have a very long 380KV powerlead to plug that car into the electrical grid to power that hydrogen generator ;)

I thought that the slogan "There is a Marxist in every bush!" (no pun intended) went out with the nutty Senator from Wisconsin 50 years ago.

that senator was right in principle, though he may have overestimated the actual number of Marxists (or underestimated the number of bushes).

However, that's not the issue.
Both Obama and McCain have extremely strong communist agendas. Restriction of personal freedoms, increased government power over both people and the economy, etc. etc.

Both are enemies of the constitution, though McCain maybe not quite to the degree that Obama is.

Really the only difference between them is that McCain is a Christian and Obama a Muslim pretending to be a Christian.

bleh. Just put up a botnet of machines you bought from some script kiddie and set them to repeatedly download it.
Voila, millions of downloads.

Remember: download counts don't say a thing about actual users, and even less about actual persistent users.
I tried pretty much every version of FF, and quickly abandoned all of them.
Yet they probably count me for 5 or 6 downloads at least.

correct. When you say you like (or dislike) something always qualify that statement.
WHY do you (dis)like it, what did you try to use it for, etc. etc..

That's because Bioshock probably built more heavily on existing software and libraries, so required less people.

You could do it with a smaller team, you'd just take FAR longer.
And you'd need FAR more skill per team member. Think about putting a dozen people like Bjarne Stroustrup, Joshua Bloch, and people like that on a team rather than pulling open a can of college grads and giving them an introductory course in C++ and DirectX to build most of the system.

we don't make people feel stupid. At worst we make them aware of their existing stupidity, which is the first step towards getting rid of that stupidity.

the problem in this case is not with Eclipse, nor (if it works outside of Eclipse) with your application, but with you.
You don't understand how to use Eclipse, and you blame Eclipse for that rather than your incompetence in using it.

So read that documentation, try some of those tutorials, and see what you learn.

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 cryptic, which this one isn't).

no, but both Osama and McCain are Marxists...

and what are you doing? You're the post flooder in this thread...

by talking to the customer to find out what he needs.
by hiring people who know what they're supposed to do when it comes to designing software rather than asking questions on some internet forum and hoping for a one-step magic bullet solution.

yup, the language specification for each language will have it all.

But I have to disappoint you: the approach you've chosen is woefully naive!
Not only does syntax highlighting need to do a lot more than just identify keywords (it for example needs to be able to colour variables at different levels, method names, etc. etc. as well to name a few) but it also needs to be able to understand the code so that it can flag incorrect use of words as errors.
For example if you use a keyword as a variable name that keyword in that position should not be coloured as a keyword, but as an error.

ever more you'll notice that if your main skill is plugging away at code, turning technical designs into source using an editor, that you're quickly going to become an interchangable resource easily replaced by some cheap kid from India or some other low-wage country.

Develop domain knowledge, interpersonal skills, management skills, design skills.
Learn how to not just hack away at that code but find out from vague requirements what it's supposed to do.
Learn not just what the customer wants (he'll often tell you that) but what he needs (he may not even know what he needs...).

Remember that commercial software development is no one man show. And the programming is only a part of the equation, and usually the easier part (though often among the most time consuming).

I at the moment spend probably only about 2-3 hours a day on average with my nose in code, and only half of that is spent writing or modifying code.
The rest is spent testing, trying to reproduce problems, communicating with customers and colleagues, analysing requirements and problems, etc. etc.

But then I'm no junior, so my tasks are more varried than those of a beginning programmer (and you'll likely notice that there is precious little work for those in north America or western Europe, unless you have good skills elsewhere so you're flexible).

A ready made system (including all payment handling) is offered by a company I do volunteer support for (mind, they don't pay me, I just get to use their products for free).
While centered around Microsoft Flightsimulator addons, their system should be universally applicable.
Their system takes care of payment, key generation, key validation, piracy protection, etc. etc.

http://www.flight1.com/view.asp?page=developers

Mind, I don't know how much it will cost you to initially set up, but you might want to contact them.

the right places being any decent book (or probably websites too) on Java that touches on serialisation...
Or common sense.

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 it.

do your own homework, thread hijacker.

you can, but you don't want to.
It's not what JSP are meant to be used for.

and that doesn't even take into consideration the energy inefficient production methods which require far more energy to be put in than burning that hydrogen in your car could ever hope to get out again.

Wenting, why don't you just report to the nearest mental hospital and get it over with!

typical communist reasoning. Anyone who doesn't agree with them must be mentally ill...
Stalin would be proud of you, he locked up tens of thousands of people he didn't like in mental hospitals.

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.

learn Java.
You obviously lack the knowledge for that job, people giving you the answers so you can send them in as your own in order to get it is doing ourselves a disservice.

do NOT use ODBC!

you're having network problems. Either the server refuses your connection at the network level, your JDBC URL is incorrect (pointing to something where there is no server for example), your client refuses the connection (unlikely if you've turned off the firewall on it), or something else in your network blocks the traffic.

that has nothing whatsoever to do with JSP. It's clientside functionality which means it's probably Javascript.

and how do you think we could help you (even had you asked in the right place?) without any information?

no. that's defined by the browser. Most likely IE is just faster than is FF (wouldn't surprise me, it is faster in my experience) so it's getting a response and processing it before it gets a chance to display the bar.

Do NOT use scriptlets in JSP.
And learn something about Java in general before trying JSP.

Lastly, don't blame Eclipse and the server for your incompetence. Blame yourself for not understanding what you're doing and why you're getting errors.

no need. Given a little time (I'm rusty on my chemistry) I can calculate how much electricity you need to create enough hydrogen gas through electrolysis that you can sell it.
It's a LOT. Take into account the line losses between the powerstation and the production facility and it gets far worse.
Take into account the inefficiency of powerstations when burning fuel compared to car engines and it gets worse still.

And only in the Neterlands would someone spread such visious false rhumors (lies). A man of your intelligence should be ashmend of yourself.

your bile proves my point... It takes a foreigner to see through the campaign promises and subterfuge of Osama bin Barak bin Laden ibn Hosseini.

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 explains the transition from Java to C#.
Given that VB.NET is another .NET/CLR language, you should be able to use that together with a VB.NET reference to get underway.

it is also created with electricity and water, which is quite eco-friendly (depending on how the electricity is generated)!

Not commercially. Too expensive to get anywhere near a decent production volume.
And you need large nuclear power stations to get enough electricity, which aren't being built because the greenies don't want nuclear power (or any power, come to think...).

yes, only in America would people willingly vote for a communist Muslim fanatic whose primary goal is to destroy the country he's aiming to be voted president of...

I play a mean guitar. Everyone runs away when they hear me playing...

already exists, but not found in stores that are suitable for minors :)

go with Ruby. Steve Jobs says noone uses Java, and .NET doesn't work on Macs.
Ruby is also massively hyped.

You didn't post any "codes", you asked for people to provide you some...

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

well, ANY version of Oracle released in the last decade has JDBC drivers.
Using the bridge driver is ALWAYS wrong! ALWAYS!

And so is doing database access from JSP.

You can't, period.
What you MIGHT be able to do (but not with a properly configured webserver) is to generate (using a servlet) a list of files that can be downloaded, and another servlet that gets those files from the filesystem and sends them to the client.

Nasty...
Far better to enable scp.

hydrogen is generated from natural gas... That releases a lot of CO2 and bad things, plus takes tons of electricity generated by burning more gas, oil, or coal.

Hardly "ecofriendly"...