- showMessageDialog method
  - intended for displaying short one-line messages
  - not general purpose output mechanism
- standard outpt window
  - window w/ black background
  - appearance varies with development tool used
  - function always the same
- System.out
  - output multiple lines of text
  - output numerical values via conversion to text
- System class
  - useful class data values
    - instance of PrintStream class named out
    - refer to with class name System.out
    - PrintStream object tied to standard output window
    - text sent to System.out appears in standard output window
- standard output: technique of displaying data via System.out
- use print method to output a value
  - continue printing from end of currently displayed output
  - sending numerical values as parameters
    - does necessary type conversion implicitly for any primitive
- println
  - print an argument and skip to next line
  - typical to use one for each line of output

Quick Check:
1. System.out.print("I Love Java");
2. System.out.println("Shopping List");
   System.out.println("\tApple");
   System.out.println("\tBanana");
   System.out.println("\tLowfat Milk");