Locks a minimim size to a dialog or panel.

Formats milliseconds into a duration string.

Draw a dotted line in Java.

A simple implementation of a Java timer. Executes timer task every second.

Remove newslines from a string.

Move a file quickly in java.

Computes the difference between two dates in seconds

More often than not, if your trying to work out what's going wrong with your subclass of InputStream, why the character encoding is getting lost in your database, or your file format reader is failing, you'll need to dump a byte buffer out in a useable form.

Here's two methods, one which appends to a StringBuffer, one which simply prints out to System.out

Tim.

(NB: The line: sb.append( "n" ) ; SHOULD have a leading slash ie: sb.append( "\n" ) ; but the formatter seems to remove it...

Here's a nifty trick I often use for testing.

Lets say you have a c:\foo\lib directory full of jarfiles for log4j, javamail...whatever.

Modern J2EE containers do a nice job of letting you deploy a jarfile with your code and have a lib directory full of jarfiles like this, but what if you just want to run a quick client from the command line?

Here's what you do:

Method for get n random number's