Lock the screen

How can i lock the screen with swing? Just like a screen saver does when ascking for a password. I'm messing around with KeyEvent and awt.Robot, bu the solution is not complete. Is there a better way? Thanks -- -- Dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach Andrei Postolache -- _

SwingWorker question.

For those of you familiar with the concept of SwingWorker class. The issue is this. I want to let the user the ability to cancel the validation process that takes a long time -- sometimes a very long time when the database is slow. So, I placed the operation that makes this expensive call to the