Draw a border with a transparent shadow

Hi, Is there any way to draw a border that has a shadow below it?
I know that it's possible to use drawline() with a transparent color but it only works fine when the screen is completely repainted.
Help please! becouse i'm going slightly mad...

Y already know the borders in "javax.swing.border" but the idea is to draw popup menus with a transparent shadow on left and bottom sides.
And I'm trying to do it with a border.
An example of this would be menus in Windows XP.

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import javax.swing.border.CompoundBorder;
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