Question about Java complying

I have a question here that I cant seem to figure out.
I would really appreciate it if someone would help me out with the answer. I just got started learning Java and have a question:
Suppose list is an array of five components of the type int. What is stored in list after the following Java code executes?
for(int index = 0; index < 5; index++)
list(index) = 2 * index + 5;
if(index % 2 ==0)
list[index] = list[index] -3;
I would really appreiciate it if someone could help me out with this problem.

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(2) Say I never read that Readme so I download the jre (as an exe) to bundle it along with my application in a jar ... now I'll give my neighbor either a jar with two exes or two exes jars ... is there a way to make a jar so that two files get executed? ... if the answer is No and I have competition from a second neighbor, then I believe I'm asking my first neighbor to choose my application based on our friendship, that's not reasonable if we are doing business, so Java loses.
(3) Say that my application is a single executable file like this,
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(4) I've read that by installing a more recent version of a jre on a system that has an older jre (there to help other applications work), I might be causing a problem for the other applications to run ... I guess that's the reason why that Readme kind of encourage to redistribute a "private" version of a jre (one that doesn't come with a java.exe launcher ... any feedback on this?
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jorgelbanda wrote:
..(5) I'm reading a lot of hype about Java Web Start ... It's gratifying to think that someone who wants to deploy apps., has the common sense to search first! You would not guess how I often I hear "I wanna' make an EXE" shortly followed by "What's webstart?".
...it looks better than the traditional jar/jre deployment ... but setting up a MIME type to .jnlp, it doesn't come with some free hosting I've checked ... OK. You cannot define new mime types, but perhaps the site already has it defined. An easy way to check is to upload 'any old file' that ends in .jnlp and use the [mime type checker|http://pscode.org/mime/] to see what content type it is served as.
..somebody can recommend a free hosting service that allows to set a .jnlp MIME? (I'll appreciate a suggestion here, cause I would like to test Web Start)... I'm pretty sure the Google based sites offer it.
Note that I edited the asterisks out of your post, to avoid the forum software parsing half the reply as bold.

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I'm helping someone rehost a tool from the PC to the Sun. We're using the Netbeans IDE and the Java programming language. I took a Java course several years ago, but need some help with something now. We're developing a front-end GUI using Swing to allow users to select different options to perform their tasks. I have a general question that will apply to all cases where we run an external process from the GUI. We have a "CommandProcessor" class that will call an external process using the "ProcessBuilder" class. I'm including the snippet of code below where this happens. We pass in a string which is the command we want to run. We also instantiate a class called "StreamGobbler" my coworker got off the Internet for redirecting I/O to a message window. I'm also including the "StreamGobbler" class below for reference. Here's the "CommandProcessor" class:
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import java.io.*;
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is.close();
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ex.printStackTrace();
The "CommandProcessor" class calls two (2) instances of the "StreamGobbler" class, one for "stdin" and one for "stderr". My coworker discovered these are the 2 I/O descriptors that are needed for the external command we're running in this case. We're actually called the Concurrent Versions System (cvs) command from the GUI. Here's what we need it to do:
We want to display the output real-time as the external process is executing, but we want to block any actions being performed on the GUI itself until the process finishes. In other words, we want to show the user any generated output from the process, but don't want to alllow them to perform any other actions on the GUI until this process has finished. If we use the "waitFor()" function associated with a process, it blocks all external process output until the process has completed and then spews all the output to the screen all at once. That's NOT what we want. Also, if we don't use the "waitFor()" function, the code just continues on as it should, but we don't know how to block any actions on the GUI until this process has finished. My coworker tried the following code, but it also blocked any output until the process had finished:
while (s1.thread.isAlive() || s2.thread.isAlive())
// We really don't do anything here
I'm pretty sure we have to use threads for the output, but how do we instantly show all output and block any GUI actions?
Thank you in advance for your help!

You're talking about a GUI, but there's nothing in that code which is putting events into the GUI update thread. You also say that nothing happens to the GUI until the CommandProcessor.Run() method returns if you wait for the process.
This implies that you're calling CommandProcessor.Run() in an ActionListener. This will block the GUI thread until it completes.
I was going to explain what to do, but a quick Google informed me that there's a new class which is designed to help in these situations SwingWorker (or as a [separate library|https://swingworker.dev.java.net/] if you're not up-to-date yet).

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#2 Based on the above code, say there is 11 jsp pages, remember, this is an online questionaire. When user logs in, he starts at the first jsp page, or question. When for example when the browser gets cut off at question6, when he logs back in, I want him to start at question4, if cut of at question 11, start again upon login at question 8. The reason, so he won't have to start from the beginning. Each question is on seperate jsp's. The way I see this happening is creating a session upon login and keeping that session. And grab 4th question when he logs back in, but I am not sure about how to go about it.
Can someone help me please?

Q1:
Use the update command and not insert.
Q2:
Won't work. The user may log back in after the session has expired or from a different location. On log in look for a record for that user and what questions have been answered so far.

Question about Java Applet Jar file signing.

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the Applet jar file (ie. Apache Tomcat, for example).
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and certificate file, and provides the browser pop up menu asking the user
about a new, non recognised certificate (initially).
Is this so?
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the sandbox, be it with or without the stipulated
policy permissions?

848439 wrote:
-In order to "escape" the java applet sandbox that exists around the client's
copy of the applet running in their web browser, ie.
(something forbidden by default), is verification of the signed applet enough, or is a policy file required
to stipulate these details?Just sign the applet, the policy file is not necessary.
-Is the "keystore database" a java language service/process which runs in
the Server's memory and is simply accessed and started by default
by the client verifier program (appletview/web browser)?No.
-The public key certificate file (*.cer) is put in the webserver directory holding
the Applet jar file (ie. Apache Tomcat, for example).No. For a signed Jar, all the information is contained inside the Jar.
-Presumably, the web browser detects the signed jar
and certificate file, and provides the browser pop up menu asking the user
about a new, non recognised certificate (initially).
Is this so?No. It is the JVM that determines when to pop the confirmation dialog.
-With this being the case, can the applet now escape
the sandbox, ..Assuming the end-user OK's the trust prompt, yes.
..be it with or without the stipulated
policy permissions?Huh?

Question about Java MySQL connection

Hi guys, greetings to y'all, me name is Ryan, I'm new 'round here.
I have some questions, I have some application that I build with Java and using MSSQL Server 2000 as it's database, and now I want to try to use MySQL as it's database. I use MySQL server 5.0 and Navicat 8 for MySQL for the gateway and Win XP SP2 as my OS, what I want to know is, can you guys give me some connection string example for MySQL, for Java that is, I'm still learning in Java so sorry if I have some mistaken languages or code related words. Thanks a lot guys.
Best Regards.

Hi zahid, thanks for the reply, so if I have this code, like this one
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                         }I just simply change the Class.forName{} line right ?
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Hello,
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Thanks
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thx :) J2ME seems to be very interesting. But zeb is right with the post in the discussion thread for this article, "where to start" is an important questions. So please, sun, make it easier for us to us (hobby-)programmers to adopt J2ME..
I found this one alternatively:
www.ewesoft.com
does anyone have experiences with it?
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Question about java thread implementation

Hi All,
I am comparing the performance of the Dining philosopher's problem
implemented in Java, Ada, C/Pthread, and the experimental language I
have been working on.
The algorithm is very simple: let a butler to restrict entry to the
eating table, so that deadlock is prevented.
It turns out that the java code is the winner and it is 2 times faster than C!
The comparison result really surprised me, and raised a big
question mark : why java runs so fast? I did not use high-level synchronization
constructs like Semaphores, atomic variables, etc.
I vaguely recall that Java thread is actually implemented by the underlying
system thread library(so on linux, the default would be NPTL, on windows NT threads,
and on Mac OSX it would be Cthread?). Can no longer remember where I read that.
Does anyone here have some notions about the Java thread
implementations(where is this formally explained)? or Does anyone know where
I can possibly find relevant literature or the answer?
thanks a lot.
cheers,
Tony

Peter__Lawrey wrote:
google has lots of information on java threaded.
One thing java does is support biased locking. i.e. the thread which last locked an object can lock that object again faster.
This may explain the difference. [http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=java+usebiasedlocking]
Note: you can turn this option off and other locking options to see if a feature is giving you the performance advantage.
Personally I have found that real world multi-threaded applications are easier to write in Java, esp. when you have a team of developers. For this reason, alot of C/C++ libraries are single threaded, even when there would be a performance advantage in being multi-threaded (because its just too hard in reality to make it thread safe and faster because of it)I didn't know that, very interesting :-)

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