Hi all,

I am a java newbie and I am using eclipse to write this simple code:
// Fig. 3.17: Dialog1.java
 // Printing multiple lines in dialog box.
 import javax.swing.JOptionPane; // import class JOptionPane

 public class DialogBox
 {
    public static void main( String args[] )
    {
       String j = "abc";
       //System.out.print(j);
       // display a dialog with the message
       String.format("This is a string %s", j);
       System.out.printf("This is a simple string %s", j);
       //JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Welcome\nto\nJava" );
    } // end main
 } // end class Dialog1

I am getting this error message for format and printf statements:

The method format(String, Object[]) in the type String is not
applicable for the arguments (String, String)
The method printf(String, Object[]) in the type PrintStream is not
applicable for the arguments (String, String)

I am using jre : jre1.6.0_02

Can anyone help !!

Thanks,
Ankur