A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
A small example is provide for JOptionPane where a snippet follows:

     JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane(arguments);
     pane.set.Xxxx(...); // Configure
     JDialog dialog = pane.createDialog(parentComponent, title);
     dialog.show();



EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
The method show() in the above example is deprecated. The recommended method to call would be setVisible(true). The code snippet would then appear as:

     JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane(arguments);
     pane.set.Xxxx(...); // Configure
     JDialog dialog = pane.createDialog(parentComponent, title);
     dialog.setVisible(true);

ACTUAL -
The greater body of text follows:

Direct Use:
  To create and use an JOptionPane directly, the standard pattern is roughly as follows:
     JOptionPane pane = new JOptionPane(arguments);
     pane.set.Xxxx(...); // Configure
     JDialog dialog = pane.createDialog(parentComponent, title);
     dialog.show();
     Object selectedValue = pane.getValue();
     if(selectedValue == null)
       return CLOSED_OPTION;
     //If there is not an array of option buttons:
     if(options == null) {
       if(selectedValue instanceof Integer)
          return ((Integer)selectedValue).intValue();
       return CLOSED_OPTION;
     }
     //If there is an array of option buttons:
     for(int counter = 0, maxCounter = options.length;
        counter < maxCounter; counter++) {
        if(options[counter].equals(selectedValue))
        return counter;
     }
     return CLOSED_OPTION;


URL OF FAULTY DOCUMENTATION :
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/