There is no need to give me replies like that to every question I ask. My colleague is on vacation.

I keep it classic. That's what I - and more important - other programmers/colleagues are used too. regards Torsten I never finish anyth...

Neo10101 wrote: //Another thread can now mutate this object because it has a reference to it: No it can't. Not from that method. Thread 1 calls that method. That method create a brand spanking new object and returns it to the caller. Thread 2 calls that method. That method create a brand spanking new object and returns it to the caller. Neither object is the same. The calling sequence of the threads 1 and 2 are irrelevant (again in the context of this method only) each will still get a new object which is untouchable by the other thread. Neo10101 wrote: Does anyone know any more practical examples on how an object can escape a method call? The method returns a data member of the class which is an object. So public MyObject getMyObject() { return myObject; }

You can split Control and View by doing that. It has several advantages: one of the biggest to me is, that I can change the view without touching the behavior of the UI. I can also use one Controller for several Views, which gives me more control about what's happening. But I also use just MV, addressing anonymous event listeners in the view's code. Mostly on dialogs or when "quick&dirty" is required. regards Torsten I never finish anyth...

My mistake. I thought I was on the 'General Questions' forum.

CsTreval wrote: Businesses' sole purpose is not making money. That is old-boxed thinking. Today's businesses' main goal is to make a difference in this world and make it a better world. Look up the word "naive". Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

You could use the HttpWebRequest class[^], as described in HttpWebRequest/Response in a Nutshell - Part 1[^]. Veni, vidi, abiit domum

These questions should be addressed to the writer of that white paper. Use the best guess

CsTreval wrote: What is the ideal methodology for handling client HTTP requests coming in for a servlet? Depends. While classing HTTP servers fork for every requests, modern servers don't. CsTreval wrote: a) -> Is it not resource-heavy to have a million clients do a million requests at a time? Of course, even some thousand clients will bring your server to it's knees. And forking and creating a new process is more bloated that a small thread CsTreval wrote: b) -> Does this only lightly affect the CPU/memory/stability on the server? Are you doing huge computation? CsTreval wrote: c) -> What methodology is used in real-world applications? We use threading on an assumption that our server is capable enough to handle the request. When we find we are unable to serve one, we either, refuse connections or send an HTTP 5xxx Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas. ~ Carl von Clausewitz ~ Source

Strange?? I do files with a great deal of backgrounds with fancy gradients, images... designed with blend of course?? Well mine is vs2012? yours??

I actually view XML documents as a datatable, and in fact you can store a datatable to XML format by the ToXML command.

The code you have will return the value then increment, or decrement. To perform the change before hand try: return ++this.value; It is not really thread safe, but it is such a trivial example that you won't see a problem. Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

You've already set the name to the thread in the constructor itself. Why are you again setting the same. This works fine. It probably will not return null. You'll need to call setName() on MyRunnable object and not on Thread object. By the way, the setName() method in MyRunnable object is not at all a name for the thread. It might be just for printing purposes. Do you want it like that only? Remove runnable1.setName(thread.getName()), try calling the setName() method in the class that you've written (MyRunnable). It should work! Test once. Gowtham Gutha (http://java-demos.blogspot.com)

A super class reference variable has the capability to hold its sub class object but a sub class does not have that capability. As MyThread is subclass of Thread, you can write Thread t=new MyThread(); But not MyThread m=new Thread(); That's false. Gowtham Gutha (Java-Demos.Blogspot.com)

dojohansen wrote: Now you're just teasing me...? Partly; F# is a functional language, seemed to map to having everything in a function. dojohansen wrote: It's plain old procedural code. In that case, I wrote a lot of those applications, in AMOS Basic. Somehow, that one seems to fit the previous description less than F#. It became a mess quite quickly when your app grows larger. The best thing since sliced bread was the idea to group 'em. The idea that the local variables could be shared among that group was brilliant; took a lot of repeating parameters out of the procedures. Lots of people still program in a procedural way in the new OO-environment, simply because it's easier to understand. And given recursion, you could still kill the stack. Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]

Working from the bottom up, you should implement all the data logic below the UI layer. Have a class that loads the document, it will know how to interpret the document and get the definitions out. Then have asingle UI class read the data to define itself. This allows different UI's to use the same data class and can make supporting multiple platforms - desktop, tablet, web - much easier as you only need to implement the UI once per UX variant. Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

CsTreval wrote: Any ideas on this? Don't over use it. For that matter don't over use any abstraction concept. As an example of that one could suppose that because interfaces are "good" and so are factories that every class should have its own interface and its own factory. And that is just wrong. Also be aware that in terms of management abstraction conceptions via syntax are only self maintaining when there is only one deliverable. So if you have two deliverables (or 20) and you want to remove an interface method from shared code then you are going to need to determine the impact on all of the deliverables. CsTreval wrote: This example illustrates composition instead of inheritance You should strive to favor composition over inheritance. Or more specifically do not over use inheritance and specifically be wary of using inheritance solely as a mechanism to facilitate shared behavior (only.) CsTreval wrote: How was it decoupled? Answered by other responder. CsTreval wrote: Will putting the interface in between A and B decouple their relationship? Yes. However whether it is appropriate or not is a different question. CsTreval wrote: What if there was no interface between them? Then A would be tightly coupled to B? Yes. Again though that might not be appropriate. And especially for this specific example since 'print' suggests something that is very specific. CsTreval wrote: If B disappears, can I simply replace it with a C class thanks to the interface? Not sure what the question is. If you delete B and create C then updating A is still going to be easy even if B/C didn't implement ABInterface. For your example the same work would be required with or without the interface.

CsTreval wrote: I come from a university with one of the highest reputations there are So do I, even if it's from Romania CsTreval wrote: I'm actually going to be an Application Developer So what? I'm a Software Engineer. I don't think it would've got me my job by itself. Being a Software Engineer / Application Developer / Software Architect / [Insert-another-fancy-title-here] counts for nothing in a company that does real work, if you can't back it up with knowledge CsTreval wrote: There's only so far you can get with 'practice' and 'experience' Yes, and after only 2 years experience, I've found my teachers suck, and have nothing to do with the current technologies and methodologies, most of them proven to work (AGILE as a methodology for instance, or HTML5/CSS3 as techonlogies. Not to mention that those who taught Java had no idea on how to use the language besides teaching the fundamental algorithms (sorting, searching) and data structures (arrays, lists) in it) CsTreval wrote: The tons of math and logic theory I had to process before I came to this point. The years of lectures on Software Engineering Oh yeah, the tons of math, logic, and analog electronics :wtf: :wtf: Now, I'm not saying they might not be useful, but the chance they are is pretty negligible. I've been through college too, I even studied pretty hard. Nothing of that ever helped during the first few days of my professional career, while I've banged my head on a wall trying to get Tomcat6 to work on a CentOS. Nothing! Then I've learned that school only teaches you the basics, the rest comes from passion and, most especially, experience. Look at the most prominent guys here (I'm talking OriginalGriff, Dalek Dave, JSOP, and maybe others, who I'm sorry for not mentioning right now). How many of them do you think have strong educational backgrounds? And yet, just look at the stuff this guys post, and the articles they write. That, my friend, comes from experience, and not education. I'll take any of these guys anytime over 90% of my college teachers. Oh, and to end, you know there's an old saying... Wiser people that you and I said: Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach Full-fledged

Is this entered from a GUI or is this object coming from some API? For a GUI you can also use a GUI sided validation. You can e.g. use a KeyListener and validate the entered value right away. For an API side validation I would suggest a Validation Layer which has to be passed before the data is used. Your code - as Richard already stated - is a bit mixed up. Here is a valid suggestion: private void doCheck() { if (name != null && name != "") { // always check first for null for (String year : years) { // years only need to be checked when name was ok if (year != null && year != "" ) { try{ int i = Integer.parseInt(year); // you can check if the number has a valid value here // (e.g. between 1900 and 2012 (now-18 for adult check) } catch(Exception oException){ /* not a valid number */ } } } for (String studyChoice : studyChoices) { if (studyChoice!=null && studyChoice != ""){ /*Check for valid study course here - I suggest an Enum for the fixed range of valid values*/ } } } else{ /*not even a valid name is given*/ } } regards Torsten When I'm not working

I must be missing something here... What is this canvas array and how does it relate to the Silverlight Grid? How does the managed Silverlight code know about the canvas array? How are you calling javascript from managed code? Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java: