JLayeredPane help

Question

I need to create a GUI with a JPanel showing a plot, and on the bottom left corner I'd like to have a JTable showing some data. The LayeredPane would be real nice to do that. I tried but the objects in the LayeredPane did not resize with the window. So, my question is: is there any way to fix the objects in the LayeredPane so they resize with the window much like if it was a BorderLayout or so?
Here is a little test I did without the plot; but it exemplifies real well what I mean:
public class TestLayersMain extends javax.swing.JFrame {
    /** Creates new form TestLayersMain */
    public TestLayersMain() {
        initComponents();
    private void initComponents() {
        jPanel2 = new javax.swing.JPanel();
        jLayeredPane2 = new javax.swing.JLayeredPane();
        jScrollPane3 = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
        jTextArea2 = new javax.swing.JTextArea();
        jScrollPane4 = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
        jTable2 = new javax.swing.JTable();
        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        jPanel2.setLayout(new java.awt.BorderLayout());
        jScrollPane3.setViewportView(jTextArea2);
        jScrollPane3.setBounds(10, 10, 430, 280);
        jLayeredPane2.add(jScrollPane3, javax.swing.JLayeredPane.DEFAULT_LAYER);
        jTable2.setModel(new javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel(
            new Object [][] {
                {null, null, null, null},
                {null, null, null, null},
                {null, null, null, null},
                {null, null, null, null}
            new String [] {
                "Title 1", "Title 2", "Title 3", "Title 4"
        jScrollPane4.setViewportView(jTable2);
        jScrollPane4.setBounds(10, 190, 200, 100);
        jLayeredPane2.add(jScrollPane4, javax.swing.JLayeredPane.POPUP_LAYER);
        jPanel2.add(jLayeredPane2, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
        getContentPane().add(jPanel2, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER);
        pack();
   public static void main(String args[]) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new TestLayersMain().setVisible(true);
    private javax.swing.JLayeredPane jLayeredPane2;
    private javax.swing.JPanel jPanel2;
    private javax.swing.JScrollPane jScrollPane3;
    private javax.swing.JScrollPane jScrollPane4;
    private javax.swing.JTable jTable2;
    private javax.swing.JTextArea jTextArea2;
    // End of variables declaration                  
}Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[url http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/events/componentlistener.html]How to Write a Component Listener
Try adding a ComponentListener to the LayeredPane and handle componentResized() method and then resize your components manually.