Ravi Anamalay

Hi All,
I just passed the programmer exam this morning with 88 % (ie 54 out of 61).
I'm grateful to Javaranch and all the people who stop by here - I learnt a lot in a very short time just by loafing around here.
Thanks and have a great day.
[ May 23, 2003: Message edited by: Ravi Varman ]

I'm not convinced about the ice age. It didn't stop China from developing relatively early.
You would think that if civilisations developed based on when humans arrived, then China would have been the last.

Then how come the first civlizations all happened to take off in warmer climates ? Mesopotamia, Egypt,India, Greece, etc ?
Perhaps climate doesn't have anything to do with it, just the natural cycle of civilisations ascending & descending ?

Does "Kimosabe" mean anything ?

Originally posted by Thomas Paul:

You are at the South Pole?

I meant to say there aren't that many populated places south of where I am. There's Tasmania - but that's a different story !

Does this count ? I've tried to do without a print function - although I'm sure its embedded somewhere. Its compiled with the " -source 1.4" option to enable assertions and run with "java -ea <program>".
class AHundred {
public static void main (String args[]) throws Exception {
String S="Hello World\n";

S = S+S+S+S+S+S+S+S+S+S;
S = S+S+S+S+S+S+S+S+S+S;
assert(false):S;
}
}

I'm having trouble understanding where this thread is going. But wait - that must be because I'm down under. Not that many places further south from where I'm sitting.

3 years and only 70 odd posts means you should get the "Lurker of the Ranch" award.
[ May 08, 2003: Message edited by: Ravi Varman ]

Chi,
Thanks - much appreciated.

Yes - might dispel some of the urban legends that have cropped up around the SCJP exam !

Hi Chi,
So an implicit cast from Thread to Runnable has taken place ? How do we know when such an implicit cast takes place ? Thanks.

Hi All,
1. class MyThread extends Thread {
2.public static void main(String args[]) {
3.MyThread t = new MyThread();
4.Thread x = new Thread(t);
5.t.start();
6.}
7. }

Now this was taken from Kathy & Bert's book - and the code works. I don't understand line 4 though. I thought that Thread constructor only took combinations of Runnable, String, ThreadGroup or nothing.
How come this works with an instance of MyThread, a subclass of Thread ?
Thanks in advance.

You mean web services are being used when there is a real business need for them, as opposed as to using them simply because they're the latest fad ?

Would that be related to the availability of broadband ? I know that here in Australia broadband hasn't really taken off for various reasons, some of them political.

Jane,
Your friend may be onto something. Some say that Java is the work of the devil. For instance, the unicode values of "JAVA != GOD" add up to 666.