Popup Menu on JPanel

Howdy,
I have a JPanel with various controls on it, like JButton JLabel etc. I'd like to have a popup menu appear from the JPanel regardless of whether the user rightclicks over a JButton or over the JPanel itself. One way this can be done is to trap the rightclick on each control and then pass it on to the JPanel. Is there a simpler solution to this?
Thanks

you might be able to override the processMouseEvent method on the JPanel and handle it there. I think that method delegates to the components inward. Not sure.

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