System tray functionality in java

Hi friends,
I wanted to know which is the best package to use for implementing the system tray functionality in java.
I read about systray, jtray,trayicon etc. I saw that TrayIcon is included in jdk 1.6. Is there any other included package in swing which will do this?
i am just a beginner in swing programming.
Thanks in advance.

i would say not. as far as i can remember you can't directly set icons on a AWT MenuItem.
and you shouldn't mix awt and swing components and most of the time can't do it anyway.
however, if you have your own MenuItem i recon you could overwrite paint and paint the icons,
i.e. images yourself using graphics2D methods.
if you want to dig deeper into it, there are some good tutorials on paint:
[http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/painting/]
might be worth, if you really want to have images and icons on your menuitems.
i have never done this myself for awt components, but it should work.
just found something interesting though:
[http://atunes.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/atunes/aTunes_HEAD/src/net/sourceforge/atunes/gui/views/controls/JTrayIcon.java?view=markup]
apparently, using this class, which derives from the normal TrayIcon, you can set a JPopupMenu and therefore use normal swing components.
i did not try it though, but it looks very promising.
Edited by: produggt on 20.08.2008 22:08

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