Dear People, I have heard that there is a real difference between: allocate() method which creates a buffer object and getChannel() method that does not create a channel object but only returns a new reference to an object that already exists. Is there a way to distinguish this by looking at the coding ?ie:ByteBuffer myByteBuffer =...

Dear People, In doing "Objects First with Java Chapter 4 page 90 an Auction program. Even though I have used the bidFor() method my showLots() method indicates "no bids" below is the output I received, the TryAuction driver, Auction class, Bid class , Lot class, and Person class.Thank you in advanceStan // Here is the output that indicates my...

Dear People, I am having problems trying to use the breakpoint function in JBuilder7. I took a class, put it in the Notepad, I saw no erroneous looking characters, loaded it back into the JBuilder class and set the breakpoint, by placing a red dot in the margin to the left and doing1) Run | Add Breakpoint | Add line breakpoint2) Class name:...

Dear People, I am trying to do my first applet.... In reading "Java: an Eventful Approach" http://applecore.cs.williams.edu/~cs134/eof/ by Kim B. Bruce, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk, Thomas P. Murtagh I downloaded the objectdraw library that comes with the course. and stored it at C://WINDOWS/jbproject my program is stored...

Dear People, In doing a program to learn about threads, the progam goes without stopping. I had to insert a for loop to halt the thread., otherwise the program can only be stopped by exiting JBuilder7. The program doesn't indicate the value of "delay" or 'aWhile' which should be a number of milliseconds but there is no actual value of the...