Adding Canvas3D image to a JPanel or JFrame

Question

My team has developed a 3D game board and we want to add it to a JPanel. The test code below works fine but we want to add this to a JPanel. Can you put a Canvas3D in a JPanel?
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.event.*;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.applet.MainFrame;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.*;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.geometry.*;
import javax.media.j3d.*;
import javax.vecmath.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.behaviors.mouse.*;
import com.sun.j3d.utils.behaviors.keyboard.*;
public class ProxyBoard extends Applet
     public class SimpleBehave extends Behavior
          private TransformGroup targetTG;
          private Transform3D rotation = new Transform3D();
          private double angle = 0.0;
          SimpleBehave(TransformGroup targetTG)
               this.targetTG = targetTG;
          public void initialize()
               this.wakeupOn(new WakeupOnAWTEvent(KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED));
          public void processStimulus(Enumeration criteria)
               angle +=0.05;
               rotation.rotX(angle);
               targetTG.setTransform(rotation);
               this.wakeupOn(new WakeupOnAWTEvent(KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED));
     public ProxyBoard()
          setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          Canvas3D canvas3D = new Canvas3D(null);
          add("Center", canvas3D);
          SimpleUniverse simpleU = new SimpleUniverse(canvas3D);
          simpleU.getViewingPlatform().setNominalViewingTransform();
          BranchGroup scene = createSceneGraph(simpleU);
          scene.compile();
          simpleU.addBranchGraph(scene);
     public BranchGroup createSceneGraph(SimpleUniverse su)
          BranchGroup boardBG = new BranchGroup();
          TransformGroup vpTrans = null;
          BoundingSphere mouseBounds = null;
          vpTrans = su.getViewingPlatform().getViewPlatformTransform();
          mouseBounds = new BoundingSphere(new Point3d(), 1000.0);
          KeyNavigatorBehavior keyNavBeh = new KeyNavigatorBehavior(vpTrans);
          keyNavBeh.setSchedulingBounds(mouseBounds);
          boardBG.addChild(keyNavBeh);
          MouseRotate myMouseRotate = new MouseRotate(MouseBehavior.INVERT_INPUT);
          myMouseRotate.setTransformGroup(vpTrans);
          myMouseRotate.setSchedulingBounds(mouseBounds);
          boardBG.addChild(myMouseRotate);
          MouseTranslate myMouseTranslate = new MouseTranslate(MouseBehavior.INVERT_INPUT);
          myMouseTranslate.setTransformGroup(vpTrans);
          myMouseTranslate.setSchedulingBounds(mouseBounds);
          boardBG.addChild(myMouseTranslate);
          MouseZoom myMouseZoom = new MouseZoom(MouseBehavior.INVERT_INPUT);
          myMouseZoom.setTransformGroup(vpTrans);
          myMouseZoom.setSchedulingBounds(mouseBounds);
          boardBG.addChild(myMouseZoom);
          Board board = new Board();
          Transform3D pegPositions[] = new Transform3D[8];
          TransformGroup pegPositionsTG[] = new TransformGroup[8];
          Pegs pegs[] = new Pegs[8];
          Transform3D translate = new Transform3D();
          translate.set(new Vector3f(0.0f, -1.0f, -5.0f));
          TransformGroup boardTGT1 = new TransformGroup(translate);
          TransformGroup boardTGR1 = new TransformGroup();
          boardTGR1.setCapability(boardTGR1.ALLOW_TRANSFORM_WRITE);
          for(int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
               pegs[i] = new Pegs();
               pegPositions[i] = new Transform3D();
               pegPositions.set(new Vector3f(-2.5f, 0, (float)(-i/4.0)));
               pegPositionsTG[i] = new TransformGroup(pegPositions[i]);
               pegPositionsTG[i].addChild(pegs[i].getTransformGroup());
               boardTGT1.addChild(pegPositionsTG[i]);               
          boardTGR1.addChild(board.getBoard());
          SimpleBehave myRotate = new SimpleBehave(boardTGR1);
          myRotate.setSchedulingBounds(new BoundingSphere());
          boardBG.addChild(myRotate);
          boardTGT1.addChild(boardTGR1);
          boardBG.addChild(boardTGT1);                    
          boardBG.compile();
          return boardBG;
     public static void main(String[] args)
          Frame frame = new MainFrame(new ProxyBoard(), 800, 600);
/*-------------Main Source Container------------------*/
public class Proxy extends JFrame
     implements MouseMotionListener
     private JDesktopPane myDesktop;
     private JPanel panel;
     private JLabel statusBar, position;
     private JSlider zSlide, zSlide1;
     private ImageIcon test;
     private int i;
     public Proxy()
          super("Proxy Board Prototype 1.2.2");
          i=0;
          statusBar = new JLabel();
          getContentPane();
          myDesktop = new JDesktopPane();
          getContentPane().add(myDesktop);
public static void main(String args[])
          Proxy app = new Proxy();
          //new MainFrame( new Proxy(), 800, 600 );
//          app.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
/*-------------JPanel I want to hold to the 3D Graphics--------*/
class Session extends JPanel
     implements MouseMotionListener
     private ImageIcon test;
     private JLabel position;
     private JSlider zSlide;
     private JPanel panel, gPanel;
     static int openFrameCount = 0;
     public Session()
          //super("", true, true, true, true);
          setLayout(new FlowLayout());
          openFrameCount++;
     //setTitle("Untitled Message " + openFrameCount);
ProxyBoard pb = new ProxyBoard();//<-Graphic Class
gPanel = new JPanel();
gPanel.add(pb);//<-I want the 3D Graphic here
          test = new ImageIcon("Layout.jpg");
          JLabel pic = new JLabel(test);
          addMouseMotionListener( this );
          zSlide = new JSlider(SwingConstants.VERTICAL, 600, 10);
          zSlide.setMajorTickSpacing(25);
          zSlide.setPaintTicks(true);
          zSlide.setToolTipText("Zoom");
          panel.add(zSlide, BorderLayout.NORTH);
          panel.add(gPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);//<-Graphic Here
          panel.add(position, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
          add(panel);
          //pack();
          setSize(200,200);
          setVisible (true);

Answer 1

Yes you can. Just use the add method of JPanel. However note this
http://www.j3d.org/faq/swing.html (specially read this: http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/mixing/)
when mixing Lightweight (JPanel) and Heavyweight (Canvas3D) components.