How do you insert a graphic in a java program

As you can tell I'm new to java. I want to put a background in one of my programs, does anyone know how to do that?

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look for the //Load the background
in the file.

it really depends on what kind of app you've written. Swing? AWT? is it an applet? a console application?

That will tell us what we need to know to help you along.

-Celt