Command line program that generates Dialog boxes

[Valgarv]

            int type = Integer.getInteger(args[0]);
            String messageType = "";
            switch (type)
            {
                    case 1: messageType = "PLAIN_MESSAGE";
                    case 2: messageType = "ERROR_MESSAGE";
                    case 3: messageType = "INFORMATION_MESSAGE";
                    case 4: messageType = "WARNING_MESSAGE";
                    case 5: messageType = "QUESTION_MESSAGE";
            }               
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, addNewLines(args[1],
                    CHARS_PER_LINE), args[2], JOptionPane.messageType); 

I'm trying to write a simple command line program that creates a dialog box based on the parameters I pass.

Ran as: java dialogProgram 3 "My Message" "The Title"
This program should create an Information Dialog titled "The Title" with the message "My Message"

The problems I am having are

1) int type = Integer.getInteger(args[0]); gives the error "Type mismatch: cannot convert from type Integer to int" - Is this not how you convert a String to an int?

2) My switch statement defines the message type based on the value of the first parameter. How do I concatenate JOptionPane. with my String variable messageType? (It doesn't accept Strings)

Any help would be appreciated.

[Drain]

Originally posted by Valgarv
1) int type = Integer.getInteger(args[0]); gives the error "Type mismatch: cannot convert from type Integer to int" - Is this not how you convert a String to an int?

getInteger returns an Integer object.
parseInt returns a primitive int.

2) My switch statement defines the message type based on the value of the first parameter. How do I concatenate JOptionPane. with my String variable messageType? (It doesn't accept Strings)

WARNING_MESSAGE, etc are constant ints defined within the JOptionPane class. They aren't strings at all. You should be doing

case 4: messageType = JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE;

instead of

case 4: messageType = "WARNING_MESSAGE";

[Valgarv]

That worked great. Thanks for the clarification.