Jay X Brown

Looking for a cool colleague. Principals only, no recruiters please.

The official job definition describes the essentials but basically we're looking for someone who's willing to roll up the sleeves and jump into a complex, often irrational IT set-up with a global presence and lots of work to do. We need solid coding skills, a cheerful attitude and an ability to take the ball and run with it. The management style here is great (*I'm not one of them, I'm just trying to help recruit someone I can work with*). They find good people, give you whatever resources they can, mentor you when you need it and, other than that, stay the heck out of your way. Salaries here are competitive, benefits are generous, schedules are flexible and, basically, nobody ever wants to leave.

This is the official job definition:
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A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent is required. Master's degree is preferred. A minimum of 5 years working with business ERP systems and other business applications required. Real-world application of critical analysis skills and creation of flexible, powerful, and architecturally sound solutions required. We are looking for candidates who also have advanced experience implementing customized interface systems, Java experience, experience in designing and implementing J2EE enterprise-wide solutions, advanced knowledge of HTML, forms and JavaScript.
</code>

Email me and we'll talk some more.

jaybrown99@yahoo.com

Looking for a cool colleague. Principals only, no recruiters please.

The official job definition describes the essentials but basically we're looking for someone who's willing to roll up the sleeves and jump into a complex, often irrational IT set-up with a global presence and lots of work to do. We need solid coding skills, a cheerful attitude and an ability to take the ball and run with it. The management style here is great (*I'm not one of them, I'm just trying to help recruit someone I can work with*). They find good people, give you whatever resources they can, mentor you when you need it and, other than that, stay the heck out of your way. Salaries here are competitive, benefits are generous, schedules are flexible and, basically, nobody ever wants to leave.

This is the official job definition:
<code>
A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent is required. Master's degree is preferred. A minimum of 5 years working with business ERP systems and other business applications required. Real-world application of critical analysis skills and creation of flexible, powerful, and architecturally sound solutions required. We are looking for candidates who also have advanced experience implementing customized interface systems, Java experience, experience in designing and implementing J2EE enterprise-wide solutions, advanced knowledge of HTML, forms and JavaScript.
</code>

Email me and we'll talk some more.

jaybrown99@yahoo.com

Oh my god! Of course! It had to be something stupid, simple and obvious like that...

Oh thank you, thank you, thank you...



I've made a fool of myself but at least I'm not crazy... Well...sort of...

Jay

Hi,

I'm sorry because I know I should not be having this problem. I am not a total beginner but I am just so stumped at this basic level.

I have two windows machines and a set of java applications to run on both. These are my development machines.

On one, I have Java 1.3.1_02-b02 and on the other I have Java 1.4.2_05-b04.

I can compile my code on the first and cannot compile my code on the second.

There are two jar files that are in the classpath but that are somehow not being loaded.

The classpath on the correctly functioning machine is as follows:
<code>
C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1_02\Lib\rt.jar;
C:\oracle\ORANT\jdbc\lib\classes12.zip;
.;
C:\java\bin;
C:\java\lib;
C:\java\lib\jecf.jar;
C:\java\lib\servlet.jar;
C:\Lotus\Notes\JdbcSql\lib\JdbcDomino.jar;
C:\java\lib\soap.jar;
</code>

The classpath for the incorrectly functioning machine is like this:
<code>
C:\Program Files\lotus\notes\JdbcSql\lib\JdbcDomino.jar;
.;
C:\oracle\ora92\jdbc\lib\classes12.zip;
D:\jdk\bin;
C:\java;
D:\jdk\bin\jecf.jar;
D:\jdk\bin\servlet.jar;
D:\jdk\bin\soap.jar;
</code>

Obviously, for Machine 1, I have java jdk in c:\java and for Machine 2, I have it installed in d:\jdk.

Path variables are identical. Everything is identical and everything compiles except for the classes dependent on the classes within 'jecf.jar' and 'soap.jar'.

Pulling out my already sparse hair...

(Thanks in advance)

Jay

ok. thanks for that.
but why am i getting nulls? if not the 'quick fix', what's the other route?
right now i'm ramping up on pipedoutputstream and pipedinputstream. is this the right way to go?
thanks again.
jay

thanks for the suggestion peter but it didn't work. got a null result. i had actually already tried it, i should have said that.
also interesting is that it adds two nulls together for the response.
the latest code i tried:
String errorString = errorGrabber.hashout; String outputString = outputGrabber.hashout; System.out.println("outputString: "+ outputString); System.out.println("errorString: "+ errorString);
i also tried adding this line:
outputGrabber.returner(proc.getInputStream());
(i modified the returner method in streamgrabber to accept inputstream as a parameter.)
gave me this response:
{SHA}Jey8tVnRSpjkZl1oMKxcmZkdfCU= ExitValue: 0 outputString: nullnull errorString:
running it a second time gave this:
outputString: nullnullnullnull errorString:
what's going on with the nulls? and...
what should i try next?
jay
[This message has been edited by Jay Brown (edited March 30, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Jay Brown (edited March 30, 2001).]

i'm trying to find a way to return a string from 'streamgrabber'.
without the return, it works fine and prints out the string returned from 'hashit.pl' which is a perl script/program (i'm always confused about the difference).
why can't i return a variable?
do i need to return a buffered output stream? what's the best way?
all help is appreciated.
[still a greenhorn ]
jay
import java.util.*; import java.io.*; class StreamGrabber extends Thread { InputStream is; static public String hashout=""; StreamGrabber(InputStream is) { this.is = is; } public void run() { returner(); } public String returner() { try { InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr); String line=null; while ( (line = br.readLine()) != null) System.out.println(line); hashout=hashout+line; } catch (IOException ioe) { ioe.printStackTrace(); } return hashout; } } public class hasher { public static void main(String args[]) { if (args.length < 2) { System.out.println("USAGE: java hasher \"hashit.pl [string]\""); System.exit(1); } try { String output=""; String cmd = args[0] + " " + args[1]; Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime(); Process proc = rt.exec(cmd); // any error message? StreamGrabber errorGrabber = new StreamGrabber(proc.getErrorStream()); // any output? StreamGrabber outputGrabber = new StreamGrabber (proc.getInputStream()); output=outputGrabber.hashout; // kick them off // output=errorGrabber.start(); // output=outputGrabber.start(); System.out.println(output); // any error??? int exitVal = proc.waitFor(); System.out.println("ExitValue: " + exitVal); } catch (Throwable t) { t.printStackTrace(); } } }

thanks for the response, Frank.
turns out (as i noted in my editted message) that the problem was elsewhere. but thanks for the tips.
i had totally forgotten that results.next increments the cursor. and i'll include the column names next time.
thanks again.
i love this board!!
jay

hi all,
i am persistently getting the above-mentioned runtime error and at wit's end.
This code is designed to get parameters from a html form,
read data from two databases,
and output to an xml file.
Read Error: String index out of range: -1
For every 'customer' there are usually 3 addresses. It gets
stuck while reading the address table on the second itiration. I believe this is where this error is generated.
what am i doing wrong?
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[JUST WANTED TO TELL PEOPLE THAT I FIGURED IT OUT BY SLOW TRIAL AND ERROR. THE PROBLEM WAS SOME DATA MASSAGING WHERE I WAS TRYING TO TAKE OUT EXTRANEOUS DATA. MORE ON THAT IN THE JAVA GENERAL PAGE.]

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this is the code fragment where i think the error is occurring.
public void readAdd(String x) throws SQLException { ...
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the complete code is at:
http://y42.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/jaybrown99/vwp2?.to k=bcMoy56A6cBKBmDZ&.dir=/Public&.dnm=custXMLwriter.java.java&.src=bc
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thanks, in advance, for your help.
jay

[This message has been edited by Jay Brown (edited March 26, 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Jay Brown (edited March 26, 2001).]

does anyone have any thoughts on this product? available at:
http://gunther.web66.com/JavaCGIBridge/
{sorry about that cindy)
or, has anyone used anything else to work with perl functions?
would appreciate any and all help.
jay

[This message has been edited by Jay Brown (edited March 23, 2001).]

has anyone used this? are there any suggestions on how to make the java cgi link?
sanjay

i am assigned the task of figuring out how to call a PERL function that would 'hash' a password and return it into a Java servlet.
i am truly a greenhorn and any and all guidance will be profoundly appreciated.
jay

thanks guys!
but, while we're on the topic, how does one get all this from the javadocs of the type that i've quoted? any guide for reading javadocs?
thanks
jay

i need a unique string that i can assign to filenames.
so, i'm trying to use the Date() class for this.
*** code fragment ***
Date what=new Date();
String thisMoment=String.valueOf(what);
*****************
this returns: Wed Mar 14 16:44:44 PST 2001
how do i get the milisecond portion of this. more generally, i guess this becomes a question of how to read the following javadoc.
*** from Java Documentation ***
Date
public Date(long date)
Allocates a Date object and initializes it to represent the specified number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.
Parameters:
date - the milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.
****************
thanks in advance.
jay

Seems quite different and much more of a 'complete' proprietary package. Our idea was to stay true to the non-proprietary nature of Java.
I could not tell from my view of the site, is it possible to utilize just the DTDs or XML schema without the package as a whole? It does not appear so at first glance.
I'm surprised by how little interest this topic sparks. I would have thought that industry standard DTDs would be at the heart of b2b xml usage.
JB