Help with JApplet

I need to write an event driven JApplet, with 15 labeled buttons. The buttons say nearly identical things, with the exception of a number. I do not want to write them individually, and I need to know a way I can group them in a JApplet.

Essentially I need a way I can just write one string such as:
buttons [i] = new JButton ("Seat " + (i+1) + " is open.");
and have it label all the buttons.

I have an hour to figure out how to do this.
Help is greatly appreciated.

>>9
AWT already has a Button. JButton is the Swing button.
It's just a convention so people can keep straight which toolset they're working with, since it's impossible to import just one of them, as Sun sucks massive ass at abstraction and library design.