How to present a simple alert message in java?

Solution 1:

I'll be the first to admit Java can be very verbose, but I don't think this is unreasonable:

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "My Goodness, this is so concise");

If you statically import javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog using:

import static javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog;

This further reduces to

showMessageDialog(null, "This is even shorter");

Solution 2:

Assuming you already have a JFrame to call this from:

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame, "thank you for using java");

See The Java Tutorials: How to Make Dialogs
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