How to animate JFRAME

hi all ,
any body know how to animate the JFRAMEwindow on closing and minimizing or whatever or place the application in the systray and to invoke the same in java

there are several ways to produce this stuff:
#1 - Generate an animateed gif and then apply this large image over the frame
#2 - set a CardLayout to the container and then create a set of components, each of them containing a diferent image... Then, uses a timer task to change between the cards...
#3 - Use a simple frame, an image array or vector and a timer task (or a simple Thread). Then override the paint method showing te current index of the image array ... Use the thread to change the current index..
and so on..

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