JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog

you should onlyt need to clicxk once, check that you aren;t calling that code twice.

You could read your own program better if you wrote it like this:

    if(!find(selectedGenre) )
    {                              
           CdList.setText("");
           int r = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog
                     (
                            null,
                            "No " + selectedGenre + " Found Please check back\n "
                                   + "Do you want to make Another Selection?"
                     );
                     if(r != JOptionPane.C .YES_OPTION)
                     {
                            System.exit(0);
                     }
    }


You'll find that less confusion in the source leads to less errors.
And I think that 'objects' is right.
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>> System.exit(0);

objects, will this call a shut-down hook if there is one?

>You'll find that less confusion in the source leads to less errors
Thanks, sciuriware  I i should improve my code writing format. :)
...
>you should onlyt need to clicxk once, check that you aren;t calling that code twice.
May be i should show the entire code. I did click it once, call it once.

================ code ====================
public class DisplayCdCollection extends JFrame
{
 
    private String selectedGenre;
    private JComboBox categories;
    private JTextArea CdList;
   
    private String genresOnListing[] =
    {"Choose a Catergory" , "All", "R&B", "Blues","Jazz", "Alternative","World",
     "Classical","Country","Reggae","Techno" };
 
    private String genresOnFile[];
    private CDCollection CDs;
     
    public DisplayCdCollection()
       {  
            super("CDs Display");
                                     
            this.setLocation(30,30 );
            this.addWindowListener
            (
                new WindowAdapter()
                {
                    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
                    {
                        setVisible(false);
                        dispose();
                        System.exit(0);
                    }
                }
            );
 
            //creating JTextArea to display the CDS
            CdList = new JTextArea();
            CdList.setEditable(false);
           
            //create a contianer with scrollbar where the CdList should go.
            Container c = getContentPane();
            c.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
            c.add(new JScrollPane(CdList), BorderLayout.CENTER);
           
            /**creating combobox to hold the type of CD */
            categories = new JComboBox( genresOnListing );
            categories.setBackground(Color.white);
            categories.setMaximumRowCount(12);
           
            CDs = new CDCollection();
            genresOnFile = CDs.getCdCategoies();
           
            /**
             *add a listner to the combobox. When a genre of CD is chosen a
             *the selection will automatically trigger a processing of a list
             *of CDs of that type.
             */
            categories.addItemListener
            (
                new ItemListener()
                {
                    public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent e)
                    {      
                       selectedGenre = (String)categories.getSelectedItem();
                       
                              if(find(selectedGenre) )
                              {
                                  if( selectedGenre.equals("All") )
                                    {
                                        CdList.setText("");
                                        CdList.setText( CDs.printAll() );
                                    }
                                  else
                                  {
                                 CdList.setText("");
                                 CdList.setText( CDs.getCDList(selectedGenre) );
                                  }
                              }
                               if(!find(selectedGenre) )
                             {                              
                                CdList.setText("");
                                 int r = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog
                                 (
                                    null, "No " +selectedGenre +" Found Please check back.\n"
                                    + "Another Selection?"
                                  );

                                 if(r != JOptionPane.YES_OPTION)
                                 {
                                    System.exit(0);
                                 }
                              }
                        }
                    }
               
            ); //end of addItemListener

        //creat a panel for the Cd categories combobox
        JPanel eastPanel = new JPanel();
        eastPanel.add(categories);
        c.add(eastPanel, BorderLayout.EAST);

        setSize(250,100);
        show();
    }

Or how should i tell JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog to close when i click ' yes ' .
I don't want to System.exit(0), want to still have the main window for another selection.

Perhaps the item-state changed event is getting fired twice so that method is called twice. When you click on Yes for the first time, it doesn't exit the program because your condition says if ( r != JOptionPane.YES_OPTION )

Accept gnoon's comment as answer.