Fastest way to create a Java message dialog (swing/awt/other)?

Question

I\'m creating a Java application that will do some processing then needs to display a message to give the user feedback.

However, it appears to be incredibly slow -

Answer 1

Java is the wrong tool for this. Setting up the JVM involves a lot of stuff happening in the background before the first line of Java code can be executed, and there's really no way to get around it.