Trouble with background image in JPanel

Question

I'm trying to get an image to display as a background image, and then put JLabels with other content on top of that background image. I've tried several things but can't figure out how to do it. Everytime I try, I get the images to display but the content is displayed side by side because of the layout manager.
I've tried this but the image is displayed very tiny and still is not displayed in the background.
   //*   Draw background images for panels            *
       public class BackgroundPanel extends JPanel
      // the image you want displayed in the background
         private Image background;
      // A constructor to build and initialise your panel.
      // @param resourceName
          public BackgroundPanel(String resourceName)
            background = new ImageIcon( getClass().getClassLoader().getResource( resourceName )).getImage();
            setOpaque(false);
      // @see java.awt.Container#paint(java.awt.Graphics)
          public void paint(Graphics g)
            g.drawImage(background, 0, 0, 200, 480, this);          
         // draw the rest of the panel and it's children
              super.paint(g);
      }

Answer 1

To add a background to a Swing component, do not overload the public void paint(Graphics g); methods, but the public void paintComponent(Graphics g); instead, otherwise, the background will always overlap the Swing components added.
Here is a goog working code:
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
     super.paintComponent(g);
     g.drawImage(myStaticBackground, this.getWidth() - 256, this.getHeight() - 256, this);
}In this example, I draw a static Image sized 256�256 at the bottom right corner.
Fabruccio
Java J2SE 1.5