On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 15:56 -0200, Fernando Lozano wrote: > They are not exposed in the API (so your programs don't use Sun internal > classes) but teir implementations uses. Actually it would be very > difficult to do some things (like sytem tray icons) without tapping into > the AWT implementaion. [...] I assume you're talking about the other projects from SwingLabs. I haven't used them, so I don't know. swingx, however, as I said in my comment does not use com.sun.* classes (unless they manage to do it without having it in their source code ;)). Regards, Ismael