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## Package javax.swing.border

Provides classes and interface for drawing specialized borders around a Swing component.

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Description

Interface Summary
Border | Interface describing an object capable of rendering a border around the edges of a swing component.

Class Summary
AbstractBorder | A class that implements an empty border with no size.
BevelBorder | A class which implements a simple 2 line bevel border.
CompoundBorder | A composite Border class used to compose two Border objects into a single border by nesting an inside Border object within the insets of an outside Border object.
EmptyBorder | A class which provides an empty, transparent border which takes up space but does no drawing.
EtchedBorder | A class which implements a simple etched border which can either be etched-in or etched-out.
LineBorder | A class which implements a line border of arbitrary thickness and of a single color.
MatteBorder | A class which provides a matte-like border of either a solid color or a tiled icon.
SoftBevelBorder | A class which implements a raised or lowered bevel with softened corners.
TitledBorder | A class which implements an arbitrary border with the addition of a String title in a specified position and justification.

## Package javax.swing.border Description

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.

## Related Documentation

For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:

- How to Use Borders, a section in The Java Tutorial.

Since:
  1.2

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