Converting mouse icon to hour glass

Hello all,
I was just wondering if there's a way to convert the mouse icon from an arrow to an hour glass. The context in which I want to do this is when I have a GUI and I press a button and that button causes a lengthy delay, because of heavy computations, before displaying the next GUI. During this delay, I want to convert the mouse icon to an hour glass just so the user knows to be patient.
Gibran

    Cursor wait = Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.WAIT_CURSOR);
    component.setCursor(cursor);
    component.setCursor(Cursor.getDefaultCursor());

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