How do I make a component receive focus?

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From: Burton Tjin
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 03:53

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How do I make a JTextField receive focus as soon as my program starts? 
Will calling setFocus() in my class' constructor work ?

Thanks

Burton Tjin

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