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Many application show a "splash screen" on the start. With this image you can display some informations (author, version, ...)
In java you can add a splash screen in your application in 5 or 10 lines.
I have write a free and open-source java component to do this.
With "xPopup" component you can show an image on application startup and center this image on the screen.
Sample :

Sample use in awtTips application.

   // Constructor... 
   awtTips() { 
	int i = 2 ;   // 2 Wait 2 seconds... 
        // Splash screen... 
        xPopup spl = new xPopup("splash.jpg") ; 
        // Define application variables... 
        spl.set("awtTips", 
                "2.00",
                "BERTHOU R.",
                "http://www.javaside.com/",
                "webmaster@javaside.com"); 
        spl.run() ; 
        spl.setVisible(true) ; 

        // Your code... 
        // ... 

        // Wait 2 seconds (i) and hide
        spl.hide(i); 
        spl.dispose(); 
   }

xPopup source xPopup.java
Download awtTips.zip