<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div>On Dec 9, 2022, at 10:18 AM, Harshitha Onkar <<a href="mailto:harshitha.onkar@oracle.com" class="">harshitha.onkar@oracle.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Do you have a specific use case in mind?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">No, but as a developer of a third party LAF and various custom Swing components I have had to duplicate “private” Swing code multiple times, so I would like to encourage the view that Swing is an open set of components and LAFs and that the built in components and LAFs should not be considered special or privileged.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For amusement, see the JDK class AquaTabbedPaneCopyFromBasicUI where private Swing code was duplicated by Apple and remains.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>