Java developers

I am trying to use the javaws command for the first time: I am all geared up to build some .jnlp files for my project only to find I can't get the simplest example from the demonstration site to work on my system (Windows XP, using either Mozilla 1.6 or Internet Explorer 6). The four examples just produce a grey "Java (tm) loading ..." message (which goes away after a few seconds, then nothing. The Application Manager example produces what looks to be the correct splash screen, then nothing.

The simplest case of the problem seems to be that if I type "javaws" from the command line, the Java Web Start splash screen appears, and then disappears. No error messages and no Application Manager!

I run Java SDK 1.4.2 (usually from within Eclipse) but also have 1.4.2_02 and 1.4.2_04 so there are about five javaws.exe's on my system, none of which seem to do anything.

Please help an experienced Java developer who had somehow never heard of JNLP until yesterday.

Hello All,

I'm fiddling with the regex package in the Java 1.5 beta release, and trying to wrap my head around it.

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Hello. I'm a java n00b. I have some experience in other languages - no, I'm not very good, and I'm quite rusty at the moment as well.
....And this request isn't for a class :)

I have a (simple, I think) program I'd like to write, and I'm wondering if java is suited to it. How difficult do you think it would be for a n00b like me to figure out how to do the following....
(this will be an applet embedded in a webpage)

1 - import image files
2 - let the user edit them (simple things)
3 - save the final image locally

it's the 3rd part especially I'm wondering about. I'm unsure if java allows that. for some reason I'm under the impression that recent versions do....