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It's just crazy, because it can go wrong, because string representations are not canonical: Double zeroDouble = new Double(0); Integer zeroInteger = new Integer(0); zeroDouble.doubleValue() == zeroIn …

You don't need to install anything special. Socket has been in the standard JDK since version 1.0. See socket tutorial to get started. If you want to test how the communication works between process …

always done it like this: try { foobar = new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream(), "ISO-8859-1"); } catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e) { throw new AssertionError(e); } May be a bit verbose (Java … If the Java implementation is broken, you'll want to get as good error message as possible, as quickly as possible, instead of just ignoring the impossible. …

Regardless, Java is usually considered to be way faster than CPython. …

There are several libraries written for this, just google for rxtx + java. One of the alive ones seems to be http://code.google.com/p/java-simple-serial-connector/ . …

It depends. For example, Integer#parseInt throws NumberFormatException (which is a RTE) if the provided string can't be parsed. But surely you don't want your app to crash just because the user wrote …

Java the language may be in slow decline, but Java the platform (JVM + JDK) has definitely been booming during the last couple of years (Scala, Clojure and many other languages; Android framework). … So I would expect Java the platform to be relevant in 5 years, and even in 15 years. That also makes Java the language relevant in the long term, even if its popularity may be past the peak. …

The best resource for learning it is (probably) the Java Concurrency in Practice book. …

What's gonna happen if we do not override hashcode method for our class, then add it to HashTable and then try to get objects? It depends on what "adding to HashTable" means. Java's Hashtable doe …

Swing is becoming a legacy technology, or is already. However, it's quite good in what it does and isn't going away in any foreseeable future, so I see no reason to move away from it, particularly if …

JTransforms is probably the fastest Java FFT library around. …

We went for Java (Swing) plus some native parts via JNI. … But as a long term investment I trust Java more. …

How it is different from an Interface? In an abstract class, you can implement some methods, and leave (force) the rest to be implemented by the extending class. You can't implement methods in a …

I showed him a C++ program I made that takes what you type in, then assigns values to each letter (A is the first letter in the alphabet so it gets the value of 1).. and so on. It then adds up all …

While Java may not be the or the only viable cross-platform tool, it has some strengths: It's extremely fast. It's extremely robust. … When talking specifically about Java the platform, there's one point more: There are quite a few languages that run on the JVM and interoperate with Java. …