Thanx Vova. By being new, I meant, I am not very well conversant with
specific details of GUI API's as in, in the ocean of API's of java,
where one has to really search, I am googling in order to search it
faster.

And Thomas, thanx to you too. I am in the process of trying JCheckBox
out.

here is a snippet of the code. My problem is, the check-boxes are not
getting editted, as in, checked. I've added mouseListener, still.
Please tell me how to go about it.

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class MyPopupMenu extends JPopupMenu implements MouseListener
{
    public MouseListener ml;
    public MyPopupMenu(Vector columns)
    {
        super();
        System.out.println("Inside MyPopupMenu Constructor, Size :
"+columns.size());
        System.out.println((String)columns.elementAt(0));
        JCheckBoxMenuItem[] item = new JCheckBoxMenuItem[columns.size()];

        for(int i =0;i<columns.size();i++)
        {
            item[i] = new JCheckBoxMenuItem((String)columns.elementAt(i));
            item[i].addMouseListener(ml);
            add(item[i]);
        }

    }

    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent evt)
    {
              // if (evt.isPopupTrigger()) {
                   System.out.println("Ankur :
"+(String)((Object)(evt.getComponent()).getClass()));
                   show(evt.getComponent(), evt.getX(), evt.getY());
               //}

    }

    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent evt)
    {
               System.out.println(" ");
               if (evt.isPopupTrigger()) {
                   show(evt.getComponent(), evt.getX(), evt.getY());
               }
    }

    public void    mouseClicked(MouseEvent evt){System.out.println("Ankur :
"+(String)((Object)(evt.getComponent()).getClass()));}

    public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent evt){System.out.println("Ankur :
"+(String)((Object)(evt.getComponent()).getClass()));}

    public void mouseExited(MouseEvent evt){System.out.println("Ankur :
"+(String)((Object)(evt.getComponent()).getClass()));}

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last 3 method's i have just filled some code to check if control goes
there...
alas, it isn't...

Do you have any idea how to do event-handling of the
checkboxesMenuItems??

Regards,
Ankur