What do you consider a long time? There are many reasons why getting an answer might take longer than you want. Start by reading
this.
Also, depending on where you are, you may be posting in the middle of the night for many other folks.
Personally, i've always found the answers here to be very timely. More importantly, find the people here to be much nicer than just about any other fourm i've been on.
Personally, i'm not aware of any other fourms (i am assuming you mean JAVA forums, not forums in general). This is the only one i ever use.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors