Menu Items

• Add menu items and submenus with the add method:

  JMenuItem fileExitItem = new JMenuItem("Exit");
  fileMenu.add(fileExitItem);

• A menu item has no further submenus
• Menu items generate action events
• Add a listener to each menu item:

  fileExitItem.addActionListener(listener);

• Add action listeners only to menu items, not to menus or the menu bar