Reading and writing to a URL connection, thanks to Java.

If you only want to compare yyyy-mm-dd you can use the java.sql.Date class, the valueOf method does the trick. It's perfectly safe as the sql Date class is a subclass of the Date class.

Check out the docs here for more detail.

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Based on "Random Password Generation"

Configurable number formatter.

This code illustrates using ruby REXML package. It converts J2EE web application deployment descriptor web.xml into Freemind mindmap document.

Read a eight bytes in little endian order from the given InputStream and create a long out of them.

Set's a filter for what files to accept when using JFileChooser.

I needed these for a recent project, bits and bytes constants.

Convert a password returned by JPasswordField::getPassword() into a String.

This class uses reflection to locate option setters. Client class must contains methods setFile (to receive file names from the command line) and setOption### (to receive option ###).

(See also adapter-based implementation)