JTabbedPane API too primitive??

hello,
does anyone else out there wish for a variant of JTabbedPane.addTab()
that looked like this?:
public void addTab(Component tab, Component body);
with such a method, one could pass in a jlabel for the tab component and therefore
have complete control over the placement of the icon (and whether an icon should
be displayed on the tab). but this is trivial compared to the need to put, say a close
button on a tab (possibly selectively) by passing a button as the tab component,
or a panel composite. another example of what i really want to
do is the grafting of a jpopupmenu on a jlabel that i use as the component for the
tab so that the tab can actually represent something tangible in my business domain
and domain actions exposed via the jpopupmenu.
i just skimmed a thread on a customization/extension to jtabbedpane to allow for
a "close tab" button ('x') on each tab:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=337070
i'm trying to avoid having to do something so complicated.
- has this issue been brought up before? (i did a quick search but did not find)
- if anyone from sun is listening, are there plans to add such a feature to 1.5/tiger?? (i assume
it's probably already too late)
is there a jtabbedpane extension out there that provides such a feature?
thank you!
/ eitan

Actually, this is something that was supposed to show up in Tiger: a JTabbedPane that used arbitrary components as the tabs. But they dropped the idea, apparently at the last minute. They also failed to make the improvements to the Actions architecture that they had been promising. I'm sure they have good reasons, but it's hard not to feel betrayed...

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