Add a status bar

Hallo.
I have a program that uses a JFrame and JInternalFrames to bring out a GUI. I would like to add a strip to the bottom of the main Jrame to work as a status bar but am quite challenged. Anyone with an idea?

There are quite a number of classes involved (13 to be exact) and it communicates with a MySQL database so posting the code will be a bit tedious. But just to give a general idea, this class that extends a JFrame acts as the main window from which all other classes are called from, using JMenus. Now I would like to add a status bar of some sort to the bottom of this JFrame-extending class.

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import java.awt.event.*;
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