I have an old Samung phone to be used as a toy. After restoring back to factory image and power on, I was stuck at the activate service screen. Unfortunately, the four corner magic touch did not work. So I did quite a bit of digging and this is what worked on my Samsung Continuum: Press emergency call button, then at the dialer, press * # 8 3 7 8 6 6 3 3 , press the Home key From the home screen, tap phone icon, Dial * # 2 2 7 4 5 9 2 7 Enter SPC code: ______ displays tap in white box to show virtual keyboard, enter 6 digit code (default: 000000), tap OK Select “Hidden menu Enable”, tap OK From...

My problem is simple: in my XML data, a timestamp is provided as a long integer (number of milliseconds since the "the epoch"). When I do XSLT, I want to display it as a readable string, such as "Mon Nov 01 18:08:48 CDT 2010". After hours of struggle, I found: It's not so easy to get the job done with JDK 1.6 There are tons of garbage on the web in this space (suggestions, code snippets that simply don't work) Simple Xalan extension functions was the only resource that's somewhat informative. Even there some of the examples don't work. Below is a list of what worked and what didn't. This works: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="h... This does not (providing long value to Date constructor): <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="h......

The String.format() method provides versatile formatting capabilities. This tutorial tries to present these capabilities in a accessible manner. The format string A format string can contain zero, one, or more format specifiers . The general form of a format specifier is: %[argument_index$] [flags] [width] [.precision]co... where things in square brackets are optional, and conversion is a character indicating the conversion to be applied to the corresponding variable value. The only required characters in the format specifier is the percent sign % and the conversion character. A simple example: public static void simpleFormat() { System.out... The Argument index The argument index is specified by a number, terminated by the dollar sign $ . The same argument may be repeated multiple times in a format string. Unindexed...

From JavaDoc : java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock is a reentrant mutual exclusion Lock with the same basic behavior and semantics as the implicit monitor lock accessed using synchronized methods and statements, but with extended capabilities. The extended capabilities are: tryLock() : acquire the lock if possible, otherwise immediately return false. tryLock(long timeout, TimeUnit unit) : acquire the lock within the timeout, return false after timeout. lockInterruptibly() : try to acquire the lock and enter wait state, but can be interrupted by other threads and exit waiting. The following shows how java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock can be used. Start two threads to manipulate the same counter, one incrementing, the other decrementing. Since the counter is incremented and decremented the same number of times, in the end, it should be 0. Without locking,...

Integer.bitCount counts the number of one-bits in the two's complement binary representation of the specified int value. Example code: public class CountOnes { public static void... For long , there's Long.bitCount()

Following are some bugs in the Xalan jar shipped with JBoss 5.1.0 GA and JBoss 6.0. The Xalan jar file is located in jboss-5.1.0.GA/lib/endorsed ( %JBOSS_HOME%/common/lib for JBoss 6.0). Test xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> ... Test xsl: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs... XSLT Java code: import org.w3c.dom.*; import javax.xml.parsers.... DateUtil.java import java.util.Date; public class DateUti... XSLT output: Transformer Factory class: class org.apache.xalan.... Apparently, the output is wrong. The string "A test event" should not have been displayed.