know any good java sites?
 

i have a java project where i have to read data from a file and compress and decompress it. does anyone know any sites that might help me out with it?

heres the project specs: http://www.unf.edu/~rking/project3.doc
and heres the data set: http://www.unf.edu/~rking/Proj3_data.txt

any help would be appreciated..

http://java.sun.com they have lots of tutorials

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/

edit:
oooh I READ the assignment. so you're gonna read in text, and convert it to digits. then you're gonna read in digits and un-convert it, based on the numbers it is. sounds like fun! Some things off hand to be careful of: which stream you use. some bring in raw data (that's what you'll want, i think) and some convert straight to characters. be careful. :) same w/ your output streams! hrm. other than that, it's gonna be some down'n'dirty bit reading, converting and writing. good luck. :)

i wonder if you'd get into trouble for special casing the compression based on the rules they gave, if so its just a switch statement with a BitSet :)

thanks guys!