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What is addNotify();?

I’ve tried to find a laymans definition of addNotify() but I can’t really get any answer using Google. As far as I know, when overriding addNotify() in my class, I should call super.addNotify(); and then do whatever else afterward. My question is, does addNotify() run automatically? What is it&#82…

jhat throwing unrecognized magic number

I am trying to analyse a heap dump taken from a java process that ran into memory issues. The dump was taken using jmap. I am using jhat on the dump file – I am getting java.io.IOException: Unrecognized magic number: 169897589 at com.sun.tools.hat.internal.parser.Reader.readFile(Reader.java:94) at com.s…

Get index of enum from string?

I have a string value, I also have an array of strings and an enum containing the range also. To get the index of the string in the array, from the value supplied I write this: How do I do this for an enum? Can I use ordinal? Or do i have to make my own method? The method might

How to create change listener for variable?

Let’s say I have some variable defined using the statementint someVariable;. While the code runs, the variable’s value changes. How can I track the changes in this variable? How could I implement some Listener that behaves like onSomeVariableChangedListener? I also need to know when some other met…

Casting LinkedHashMap to Complex Object

I’ve got an application that stores some data in DynamoDB using Jackson to marshall my complex object into a JSON. For example the object I’m marshalling might look like this: Where SomeObject might look like this: and SomeOtherObject might look like this: This is fine an the object gets marshalle…

Import project (jar) into Eclipse

I got a .jar file which I need to import into Eclipse. However, I don’t want to have the jar as a referenced library. I need the .jar to be included like a “normal” project, with packages(!) and .java files. I tried to do the following: New Java project -> Import -> General -> Archi…

Error with win32com.dll in Eclipse

I am getting an error in eclipse with regards to my win32com.dll file. From the error it would appear I am trying to use a 32-bit .dll instead of a 64-bit, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a 64-bit win32com.dll file anywhere and I’m at a loss at how to proceed. I literally downloaded …