Copying, pasting and displaying images

I am developing an application with dialogs that contain JTextFields, JTextAreas etc. to and from which I can cut, copy and paste text.
However, what I am trying to do is to place some kind of component on the dialog to which I can paste an image directly from the clipboard, and subsequently display this image within another component.
I have looked at the API but cannot see anything appropriate. Does anybody know how to do this?
Thanks,
Martin

I have developed an application that does that. I constructed it so that I could store images in a database as a blob field. Here are some relevant code portions (The action listener for the paste button). To copy string, just replace the imageFlavor with String flavor and have the string be displayed in a textpane or something:
IMPORTANT NOTE: Images can only be copied from the clipboard using java 1.4 or higher, because the imageFlavor is not defined in previous versions. Strings work though.
class cmdPasteActionListener implements ActionListener
          public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent event)
               Transferable clipboardContent = clipboard.getContents(this);
               if ((clipboardContent != null) && (clipboardContent.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.imageFlavor)))
                    try
                         Image image = (Image) clipboardContent.getTransferData(DataFlavor.imageFlavor);
                         imagePanel.setImage(image);
                    catch (Exception e)
                         setStatusText(e.getMessage());
                         e.printStackTrace();
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