Posts Tagged ‘Java’

RMIT’s Server Struggles

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

It’s the first day here at RMIT and it appears that the “blackboard” server is dying… hard. I’m trying to download the content for all of my courses and i’m getting timeouts about 80% of the time.

Praise Firefox and DownThemAll, for it retries automatically until (undefined).RMIT Tomcat "Server" Failing to Serve

But what do we expect? The platform is Java running through Apache / Tomcat. I hate Tomcat.

Note: It could actually be my computer / network connection.

Using Java in Windows Command Prompt

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

It seems that the Java Runtime Environment installer doesn’t automatically add the binary path of java and javac to the system environment variables, so the ‘java’ and ‘javac’ commands can’t be used without a path. For example, when you type “javac test.java” while in your test project directory, you might get the following message:

javac’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

The solution to this problem is pretty simple and should take less than two minutes to solve, so let’s solve it… (more…)

Programming 1, Tutorial 1

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

For our first tutorial, we had to go through and answer some questions about programming and Java, here are my answers:

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