Is this bad usage of the applet sound player

Question

I have this class for playing audio for my application.
currently it is a game the is presented in a JFrame but when trying to play audio i kept coming across the use of java.applet.AudioClip for playing audio.
what i want to know is what i am doing really bad use of this class?
and if so where should i look to find tips on how to make a better audio class for my game?
import java.applet.AudioClip;
import java.applet.Applet;
public class SoundPlayer {
     public static final int WALL_HIT_SOUND = 1,  BRICK_HIT_SOUND = 2,  POWER_UP_SOUND = 3;
     private static boolean setUp = false;
     private static AudioClip wallHit = null,  brickHit = null,  powerUp = null;
     public void play(int clipID) {
          if (!setUp) {
               setUp();
          AudioClip clip;
          switch (clipID) {
               default:
               case WALL_HIT_SOUND:
                    clip = wallHit;
                    break;
               case BRICK_HIT_SOUND:
                    clip = brickHit;
                    break;
               case POWER_UP_SOUND:
                    clip = powerUp;
                    break;
          if (clip != null) {
               clip.play();
     public void setUp() {
          wallHit = loadClip("wallHit");
          brickHit = loadClip("brickHit");
          powerUp = loadClip("powerUp");
          setUp = true;
     public AudioClip loadClip(String name) {
          try {
               return Applet.newAudioClip(getClass().getResource("/sound/files/" + name + ".wav"));
          } catch (Exception e) {
               System.err.println("Cannot open Audio File: " + name + ".wav will not play this sound");
               return null;
}Thanks Scott.

Answer 1

To respond to your first question (Is it bad to use)
java.applet.AudioClip isn't part of the JavaSound API, so this isn't really the correct forum to ask this question.
You should go check out a generic applet forum for the question...
To respond to your second question (What should I use if it's bad)
javax.sound.sampled.Clip is probably what you should be using for an application to play short sounds.
/*  To load a clip */
AudioInputStream ais = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(new File("bang.wav"));
Clip c = AudioSystem.getClip();
c.open(ais);
/* To play a clip */
c.start();
/* To stop */
c.stop();
/* To stop & reset to beginning */
c.stop();
c.setFramePosition(0);