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> JFC doesn't paint very often and explicit calls to repaint() or
> invalidate()/validate() are pretty standard in JFC coding.  It's worse
> in Applets since neither browser supports resizing (though you get a
> little break if your Applet lives in a frame).

I once had to do the following, and *NOTHING* *ELSE* would work.  Even 
one slight change from this would not repaint.  Here was my "magic" that 
I saw someone else do, so I adopted it:

     // trying to repaint dirty component "whatever" below:
     whatever.invalidate ();
     whatever.validate ();
     whatever.repaint ();

As I said, leave even one of those out, or switch the order, and it just 
won't work.  Why?  I have no idea!