HELP !! XP look and feel ...

how can i make my frame have an XP look and feel ??????
please help me in details , cause i haven't done this look and feel thing before ??? thanks in advance ..

You need to change to the windows LnF which is not the default. The
following code will do it for you. Note that it will only work if your
using Windows XP.
* LookAndFeel.java
public class LookAndFeel {
    public static final String MAC_CLASS = "com.sun.java.swing.plaf.mac.MacLookAndFeel";
    public static final String METAL_CLASS = "javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel";
    public static final String MOTIF_CLASS = "com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel";
    public static final String WINDOWS_CLASS = "com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel";
    public static final String GTK_CLASS = "com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel";
    public static final String KUNSTSTOFF_CLASS = "com.incors.plaf.kunststoff.KunststoffLookAndFeel";
    public static boolean updateLookAndFeel(String currentLookAndFeel, java.awt.Component parent) {
     try {
         javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(currentLookAndFeel);
            if(parent != null) {
                javax.swing.SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(parent);
     } catch(Exception ex) {
         System.out.println(ex);
            return false;
        return true;
}To get it to work do the following:
    LookAndFeel.updateLookAndFeel(LookAndFeel.WINDOWS_CLASS, this);where this represents your JWindow or JFrame.
Hope it helps.
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