Create my own Component ???

Question

When I try to create my own component, I have alway the problem that the components do not resize with setBounds() or something similar. My Component is always shown at the position 4/23 (which depends on the Microsoft Windows Frame-Border-Size with title) and the size of my component is always the full size of the owner-frame.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class MyComponent extends Component implements MouseListener
    public MyComponent()
        setBounds(30, 30, 64, 64);      //this line was ignored
        setBackground(Color.white);
    public void paint(Graphics g)
        g.setColor(Color.black);
        g.drawRect(0, 0, 64, 64);
// Mouselistener interface implementation
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {}
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
class Test extends Frame
    public Test()
        addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
                public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
                    dispose();
                    System.exit(0);
        MyComponent m = new MyComponent();
        m.setBounds(60, 60, 128, 128);       //this line was ignored, too
        add(m);
    public static void main(String args[])
        Test mainFrame = new Test();
        mainFrame.setSize(400, 400);
        mainFrame.setTitle("Test");
        mainFrame.setVisible(true);

Answer 1

Well, I believe the setBounds method is used when using Absolute Positioning. See the Swing tutorial on "Using Layout Managers":
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/layout/index.html
I don't use Frames but I know the default LayoutManager for a JFrame is the BorderLayout. By default any component added to a BorderLayout is placed in the CENTER of the layout and will resize to fill the available size of its container. Again, this information is contained in the above link.