How to present a simple alert message in java?

Question

Coming from .NET i am so used calling Alert() in desktop apps. However in this java desktop app, I just want to alert a message saying \"thank you for using java\" I have to

Answer 1

If you don't like "verbosity" you can always wrap your code in a short method:

private void msgbox(String s){
   JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, s);
}

and the usage:

msgbox("don't touch that!");