Hi Howard,

pause(i, j) is calling a method called pause that takes two parameters i
and j.
pause(i) is calling a method called pause that takes one parameter i.
In Java (and many other languages) you can define a set of methods which
all have the same name but take different numbers and types of parameters.  
Let's say you have a method called pause and you want to be able to call it
with 1 integer parameter or two integer parameters, you would define the
following methods:

class MyClass
{
  void pause(int i){ //some code here;};
  void pause(int i, int j){ //some code here;};
};

Depending on how you call the pause method, the compiler will determine the
correct method to call. For example:

MyClass c = new MyClass(); // Instantiate a MyClass object
c.pause(10, 20); // call pause(int i, int j)
c.pause(10); // call pause(int i)

If stopRequested is true, this line of code will exit out of the while
loop.  The return keyword will return control to the block of code
immediately outside the block of code in which it was called.

I'm sorry but I don't know of any Java for VB programmers, others may have
seen such a book.

Thanks,

Michael Green
Microsoft Developer Support