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Provides classes and interface for drawing
specialized borders around a Swing component.
You can subclass these classes to create customized borders
for your components instead of using the default borders
provided by the look-and-feel being used.

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<strong>Note:</strong>
Most of the Swing API is <em>not</em> thread safe.
For details, see
<a
href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/overview/threads.html"
target="_top">Threads and Swing</a>,
a section in
<em><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/"
target="_top">The Java Tutorial</a></em>.


<h2>Related Documentation</h2>

For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/border.html"
      target="_top">How to Use Borders</a>,
      a section in <em>The Java Tutorial</em>
</ul>


@since 1.2
@serial exclude

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