Week of June 25, 2007
Featured discussion:
Using Spring LDAP for directory accessLDAP programming with JNDI traditionally means spending too much time handling checked exceptions, closing resources, and looping through NamingEnumerations. Does Spring LDAP make a difference? JavaWorld readers talk back after reading Sunil D. Patil’s “Simplify directory access with Spring LDAP” (JavaWorld, June 26, 2007).
More active discussions this week:
Is Java ready for the desktop, or not?
I’ve read some articles about Java 6 being the Java platform’s “desktop edition.” Is the JVM still too slow for desktop applications? Should I go for the .Net platform or can Java do the job?
Stripping non-numeric characters from a string
I’m working on a programming exercise where you have to count the occurrences of a number in a string. So far I have everything working, but I am stuck on how to pull non-numeric characters out of the string. Any ideas on how I should approach this one?
I am trying to configure an application in Sun One Portal Server 3.0 SP5 (Solaris 8). During configuration I tried to import some XML files and got the error: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. Please help ASAP!
Quick answer: Don’t panic. A bit longer: Break it down into little steps, even minute ones. Write out on paper what steps are required to do what you need to do, and then slowly build your program …
