JTabbedPane loosing focus when switching tabs

Question

When there are tiered JTabbedPanes and focus in one of the children and the tabbed is switched focus will go to the first component in the frame.
Is there a work around to keep the focus at least on the jtabbedpane?
Is this a know bug? anyone heard of this before?
Googling: JTabbedPane focus didn't bring up anything helpful... is there something else I should be searching under?
Here is an example:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.FocusEvent;
import java.awt.event.FocusListener;
public class TabPaneTest extends JFrame {
    public TabPaneTest() {
        JButton focusStealer = new JButton("Look at me!");
        focusStealer.addFocusListener(new FocusListener() {
            public void focusGained(FocusEvent e) {
                System.out.println("I TOOK FOCUS! W00t!");
            public void focusLost(FocusEvent e) {
                //To change body of implemented methods use File | Settings | File Templates.
        JTabbedPane tabbedPane = createTabbedPane(0);
        getContentPane().add(focusStealer, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        getContentPane().add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(300, 200);
        setLocation(400, 200);
        setVisible(true);
    private JTabbedPane createTabbedPane(int deep) {
        deep++;
        JTabbedPane tabs = new JTabbedPane();
        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
            if (deep < 4) {
                tabs.add(i + ":" + deep + " - Focus", createTabbedPane(deep));
            } else {
                tabs.add(i + ":" + deep + " - Focus", new JTextField());
        return tabs;
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new TabPaneTest();
}

Answer 1

When there are tiered JTabbedPanes and focus in one of the children and the tabbed is switched focus will go to the first component in the frame.
Is there a work around to keep the focus at least on the jtabbedpane?
Is this a know bug? anyone heard of this before?
Googling: JTabbedPane focus didn't bring up anything helpful... is there something else I should be searching under?
Here is an example:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.FocusEvent;
import java.awt.event.FocusListener;
public class TabPaneTest extends JFrame {
    public TabPaneTest() {
        JButton focusStealer = new JButton("Look at me!");
        focusStealer.addFocusListener(new FocusListener() {
            public void focusGained(FocusEvent e) {
                System.out.println("I TOOK FOCUS! W00t!");
            public void focusLost(FocusEvent e) {
                //To change body of implemented methods use File | Settings | File Templates.
        JTabbedPane tabbedPane = createTabbedPane(0);
        getContentPane().add(focusStealer, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        getContentPane().add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(300, 200);
        setLocation(400, 200);
        setVisible(true);
    private JTabbedPane createTabbedPane(int deep) {
        deep++;
        JTabbedPane tabs = new JTabbedPane();
        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
            if (deep < 4) {
                tabs.add(i + ":" + deep + " - Focus", createTabbedPane(deep));
            } else {
                tabs.add(i + ":" + deep + " - Focus", new JTextField());
        return tabs;
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new TabPaneTest();
}