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Hello,

We have an application where modal JDialog boxes create and call other
modal dialog boxes, sometimes four levels deep. Each time, these dialog
boxes need a JFrame argument to be instantiated.  We have thought of four
or five ways to do this.

(1) create (and dispose of) a new frame to create each non-primary dialog
box.

(2) make the application frame public and use that.

(3) Add a "myFrame" variable to each dialog box so that it keeps a
reference to the frame used in its constructor.  (This variable will always
be identical to the application frame, I think.)

(4) Create all of the dialog boxes in the main application, but don't show
them, so that they are all instantiated for the life of the program (much
like what happens by default in C-Builder and Delphi).

A fifth way, passing "null" as the frame, does not work very well.
 
Any comments on the pros and cons of the above alternatives? 

Thanks,
Richard Ulrich