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Dragging an undecorated Stage in JavaFX

I would like to have a Stage set to “UNDECORATED” made draggable and minimizable. The problem is that I can’t find a way to do so since the examples I come accross that do this do so via methods inserted inside the main method. I would like to have this done via a method declared in the cont…

Java Virtual Machine Heap Tuning Parameters

What would be the effect of setting only -Xms without setting a -Xmx for eg. java -Xms 2048m ? Does setting a high lower value for -Xms mean lesser Heap Fragmentation? Answer Setting -Xms to the estimated heap requirement of your application will speed up start of your application (of course Xms must be <=…

How to assert greater than using JUnit Assert?

I have these values coming from a test and I try I get the java.lang.AssertionError and detailMessage on debugging is null. How can I assert greater than conditions in using JUnit Answer Just how you’ve done it. assertTrue(boolean) also has an overload assertTrue(String, boolean) where the String is the…

Return Java system exit value to bash script

I am trying to get the return value from a java program ( System.exit(1);) into a shell script, but it seems like its returning the jvm exit code, which is always 0, if it doesnt crash. For testing purposes, this is the very first line in my main(). Anyone know how to do this? My bash code: Thanks Answer If

ODBC connection to Access database in 64-bit Windows

I am using this tutorial to create a database connection from a java application to a Microsoft Access 2010 database. The tutorial creates a system dsn in windows, and then connects to that system dsn using the following line of java code: The problem is that, when I click the link to add a new system dsn at:…

When to use ** (double star) in glob syntax within JAVA

Directly from this Java Oracle tutorial: Two asterisks, **, works like * but crosses directory boundaries. This syntax is generally used for matching complete paths. Could anybody do a real example out of it? What do they mean with “crosses directory boundary”? Crossing the directory boundary, I i…