Array of JButtons?

[Dillinger4]

I guess you could create custom JButton's and add in an instance member which would be set to a certain value when each instance of each JButton is created then query the button later on to get the value.

  import java.awt.*; 
  import javax.swing.*;
  import java.awt.event.*; 

  class XButton extends JButton{
    
   private String whichbutton;

   public XButton(){
      this("rubberbutton");
   }
 
   public XButton(String whichbutton){
     this.whichbutton = whichbutton; 
    }

   public XButton(String name, String whichbutton){
     super(name);
     this.whichbutton = whichbutton;  
    }
   public String getButton(){return whichbutton;}
  }

 public class X{
   static JLabel jl; 
   public static void main(String[] args){
     JButton[] jb = new JButton[3]; 
     jb[0] = new XButton(); 
     jb[1] = new XButton("metalbutton");
     jb[2] = new XButton("Cork Button","corkbutton");

     JFrame jf = new JFrame(); 
     Container c = jf.getContentPane();
     JPanel p1 = new JPanel();
     JPanel p2 = new JPanel();
     jl = new JLabel();    
 
     for(int i = 0; i < jb.length; ++i){  
      jb[i].addActionListener(new ButtonListener());
      p1.add(jb[i]);
    }
      p2.add(jl);
      c.add(p1,BorderLayout.NORTH); 
      c.add(p2,BorderLayout.SOUTH);       
     
    jf.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter(){
     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent evt){
       System.exit(0);
     }
    });
    
    jf.setSize(400,300); 
    jf.setVisible(true);
 
  }
  static class ButtonListener implements ActionListener{ 
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt){
     XButton xb = (XButton) evt.getSource() ; 
     jl.setText("Button " + xb.getButton() + " was pressed");
  }
 }
}