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Java Tip 48: How to create a reusable MessageBox class

Display a message on your browser screen, with Java 1.1 or later

By Jack Harich, JavaWorld.com, 03/01/98

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To avoid this deadlock catastrophe, either switch to a "better" language or use the advanced features of Java (which makes Java the better language). Simply show the modal dialog box in a new thread, and all is peaches and roses in Javaland. This is what we have done in the code above. This type of deadlock is common until one understands its cause and has a simple solution for preventing it.

Conclusion

The rest of MessageBox is self-explanatory. Study the MessageBox code and the MessageBoxTest application and have fun.

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About the author

Jack Harich, aka "Happy Jack," is a fun-loving Renaissance man who switched to software after his career as a sculptor came to a quick end due to a neck injury. He's currently a consultant in Atlanta (the Silicon Cotton Field of the South) and is very active with the Atlanta Java User's Group, it's Java As A Second Language SIG, and the Atlanta Java Consortium.

 

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