Vista Aero Glass Effect in Swing

Hi,
How can I make my JFrames transparent like windows media player in vista? Is it possible?

seams to work with GDIpipline and this trick:
JPanel cp = new JPanel(){
public void paint(Graphics g)
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
Composite oc = g2d.getComposite();
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.Clear);
g2d.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
g2d.setComposite(oc);
g2d.setComposite(AlphaComposite.Src);
super.paint(g2d);
cp.setOpaque(false);
jf.setContentPane(cp);but D3Dpipeline still draws it's gray background or a black one with the trick above

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