JSplitPane JTabbedPane Canvas resize problem

Question

I am using a JSplitPane to separate a tree and a JTabbedPane containing java.awt.Canvas based objects.
I have not been able to find a way to resize the split plane over the tabbed pane. I pretty sure this
is because the Canvas is heavyweight and the split pane lightweight, but I cannot swap out the canvas
for a JPanel (or other swing equivalent) due to performance requirements. Is there a way to allow the
split pane to resize over the heavyweight object?
Below is a code snippet which illustrates what I'm trying to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class TabTest
public static void main(String args[])
JFrame f = new JFrame("TabTest");
f.setSize(800,800);
JTree left = new JTree();
JTabbedPane right = new JTabbedPane();
Canvas canvas = new Canvas();
right.add("Canvas", canvas);
JSplitPane splitPane = new JSplitPane(JSplitPane.HORIZONTAL_SPLIT, left, right);
f.getContentPane().add(splitPane);
f.show();
}

Answer 1

I am using gl4java's GLAnimCanvas as the canvas based object in my application. Since
the Swing based gl4java object is not hardware accellerated, it is way to too slow for my application
(a 3D gui ).