Here is a non-exhaustive list of JDBC connection URLs for various databases. Corrections welcome!
Microsoft SQL Server JDBC connection URL
jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=northwind
com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
msbase.jar;mssqlserver.jar;msutil.jar
downloadl
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC connection URL
jdbc:sqlserver://serverName\instance:port[;user=value][;password=value][;property=value]
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
sqljdbc.jar
download SQL Server 2005 driver
Microsoft SQL Server (JTurbo) JDBC connection URL
jdbc:JTurbo://<HOST>:<PORT>/<DB>
com.ashna.jturbo.driver.Driver
Microsoft SQL Server (Sprinta) JDBC connection URL
jdbc:inetdae7:<HOST>:<PORT>?database=<DB>
com.inet.tds.TdsDrive
download

Submitting screenshots through the web takes several steps more than it ought to. Firstly we have to paste it into mspaint.exe, save it to disk, only to then fiddle around with the File upload to look for the file again.
Another way to do it is via a signed applet. Unfortunately, the signed applet is unable [...]

[Note: I've reposted this (with minor edits) as my original post got accidentally deleted. Thanks to Google cache]
Why is it? Why is it that Java applets -despite having the first mover advantage – achieved little traction. While Flash – a tool which targets graphic designers originally – continue to gain mindshare, and is now a [...]

Update:Looks like the post has been linked from DZone. Tell me what you think? What kind of projects would you choose Java applets over Flash or AJAX?

After all these years, Java’s applet has not seen much adoption, while Flash continue to gain mindshare. Applets suffer from slow start up times, crashing browsers, heavy resource usage. [...]

I was trying to figure out why you couldn’t drag and drop multiple columns in a JTable. It turns out to be a limitation in the JTableHeader interface, which exposes getDraggedColumn, instead of multiple columns.

package javax.swing.plaf.basic;
public class BasicTableHeaderUI extends TableHeaderUI {

public void paint(Graphics g, JComponent c) {
if (header.getColumnModel().getColumnCount() <= 0) {
[...]