Mouse-events outside application

Dear sir,
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Please can you help me,
I want my java containers wthin my java-application to listen to mouclickevents outside my java-application (so I can close some windows)
Is this possible?
Hope you can help me

The best I can think of is to use the Robot Class in Java 1.3 or later. I am not sure this is what you are looking for though.

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