How to present a simple alert message in java?

November 22, 2022 by Tarik

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");