If you're a reader of my book Java Examples in a Nutshell, and have previously downloaded the examples from this site, you may want to grab them again from http://www.davidflanagan.com/javaexamples3. A few of the examples require auxilliary properties files, which I forgot to include originally. Thanks to Ronald Tosh for pointing this out. The new .tar.gz and .zip archives contain the required properties files.
Updated Examples from Java Examples in a Nutshell
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Todd: thanks for your very kind words!
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Thank you very much for suggessting me an idea !